Markets, prices and trade

The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face positive or negative welfare consequences as [...]

The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that these [...]

World cereal prices have been increasing substantially since 2003. Until 2008, the Asian countries examined in this paper (Bangladesh, China, [...]

This study examines how different supply chain characteristics impose different coordination costs on vegetable processors. The results provide a basis [...]

This paper suggests a methodology for estimating the effects of higher food prices on global undernourishment. The paper also presents [...]

During the first three months of 2008, international nominal prices of all major food commodities reached their highest levels in [...]

The extent to which commodity price volatility affects the income of producing households and their vulnerability to poverty and food [...]

This paper compares the degree of openness to trade of three developed countries markets—the European Union, Japan, the United States—with [...]

The economy of Trinidad and Tobago is booming, in particular as a consequence of increased energy production and the historical [...]

The present paper describes the benefits and costs, in qualitative terms, of managing food price instability in Asia in the [...]