Food Prices and Rural Poverty

M. Ataman Aksoy, Bernard Hoekman, 8 October 2010

The contributions in this latest book from CEPR and the World Bank review trends in international prices and trade patterns of key food commodities, and assess the incidence of food price changes in a number of developing countries using household level data on sources of incomes and consumption patterns.

Food Prices and Rural Poverty is available to order from the CEPR website at http://www.cepr.org/pubs/books/cepr/booklist.asp?cvno=P212

URL: http://www.cepr.org/pubs/books/cepr/booklist.asp?cvno=P212
Topics: International trade, Poverty and income inequality
Tags: commodities, food prices, Poverty, World Bank, world trade

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What do the new data tell us?

Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H O’Rourke, 8 March 2010

This column updates the original Vox columns by Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O’Rourke comparing today’s global crisis to the Great Depression. The three previous columns have shattered all Vox readership records with over 450,000 views. This latest edition covers up to February 2010 showing that, while there is cause for optimism, there is no room for complacency.

Editor's Note: This column updates the original Vox columns by Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O’Rourke comparing today’s global financial crisis to the Great Depression. The previous columns have shattered all Vox readership records with over 450,000 views (O’Rourke and Eichengreen 2009).