Food price policy in an era of market instability : a political economy analysis
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Food price policy in an era of market instability : a political economy analysis
(WIDER studies in development economics)
Oxford University Press, 2016, c2015
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
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"A study prepared by the United Nations University - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)"
"First published 2015. First published in paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice,
wheat, and maize. The full or partial transmission of these global food price changes to individual developing countries, together with domestic food price changes, caused by domestic factors such as extreme weather events and market disruptions, caused governments to respond in a variety of ways.
While there is ample description of the nature, content, and causes of food price fluctuations during the last 5 to 7 years, very little is known about the processes that led to policy responses or the relative power and behaviour of the participating stakeholder groups. Understanding how and why governments responded as they did is important to enhance the existing knowledge of the political economy of food price policy and to assist governments in their policy-making as they confront future
food price fluctuations. This book presents results from political economy studies of food price policy in 14 developing countries as well as the United States and the European Union.
Table of Contents
- PART I: AN OVERVIEW
- PART II: SYNTHESES OF FINDINGS FROM COUNTRY STUDIES
- PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD PRICE POLICY IN LOW-INCOME LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES
- PART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD PRICE POLICY IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES WITH LIMITED DEPENDENCE ON FOOD IMPORTS
- PART V: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD PRICE POLICY IN LOW AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON FOOD IMPORT
- PART VI: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD PRICE POLICY IN LARGE EXPORTERS
- PART VII: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD PRICE POLICY IN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES
- PART VIII: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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