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Artículo de revista especializada, 2012
This paper describes the benefits and costs of managing food price instability in the context of promoting economic growth and poverty reduction in order to improve food security. Some key costs of stabilizing domestic food...
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ESA Working Paper 12-04
Documento de trabajo, 2012
The paper reviews the existing literature on fertilizer subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa and provides a coherent analysis of both the theoretical underpinnings and the results – or outcomes, when available – of existing fertilizer subsidy...
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ESA Working Paper 11-19
Documento de trabajo, 2011
This paper reviews four international datasets and one regional dataset which allow us to consider the magnitude of and trends in government spending on, official development assistance (ODA) to and foreign direct investment (FDI) in...
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ESA Working Paper 11-14
Documento de trabajo, 2011
The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face
positive or negative welfare consequences as a result of food price increases. Using data from household surveys and differentiating urban from...
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Como afecta la volatilidad de los precios internacionales a las economias nacionales y la seguridad alimentaria
Informe principal, 2011
En El estado de la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo 2011 se hace hincapié en las diferentes repercusiones que tuvo la crisis alimentaria mundial de 2006 08 en los distintos países, y que afectó más...
Producto informativo, 2011
This sample spread sheet accompanies the simple price monitoring tool to assess monthly changes in food prices.
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Manual/directrices, 2011
This paper presents a simple tool that can be used to monitor developments in market prices. The data requirements are relatively simple: all that is needed are monthly data on nominal market prices and the...
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Libro/capítulo de un libro, 2010
The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that these cash inflows may serve as an effective mechanism for reducing poverty in the long term...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2010
World cereal prices have been increasing substantially since 2003. Until 2008, the Asian countries examined in this paper (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) had generally been able to contain domestic...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2009
This study examines how different supply chain characteristics impose different coordination costs on vegetable processors. The results provide a basis for understanding the relative importance of four alternative supply chain characteristics to vegetable processors: (1)...
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