Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Kym Anderson, Maros Ivanic, Will Martin

NBER Working Paper No. 19530
Issued in October 2013

---- Acknowledgments ----

We wish to thank Jean-Paul Chavas, David Hummels and Brian Wright for the opportunity to participate in this study and Marc Bellemare for valuable comments on the initial draft of the paper. Particular thanks are due to Signe Nelgen for assistance with the price distortions database. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. This work benefitted from support by the Multi-donor Trust Fund for Trade at the World Bank.

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