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Food Price Changes And Poverty In Zambia: An Empirical Assessment Using Household Microdata

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  • Francesco Caracciolo
  • Domenico Depalo
  • Josè Brambila Macias

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This paper presents estimates of the welfare and poverty effects of a price increase in a major food commodity in an underdeveloped country. We use household data from a Zambian survey to estimate a demand system with which various price scenarios can be simulated for the main Zambian staple and its possible effects on different population categories. Our results show that a 50 per cent increase in maize prices could lead to an average consumption decrease of 17 per cent among Zambian households, and overall poverty could rise from 68 to 70 per cent fairly quickly at national level. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Francesco Caracciolo & Domenico Depalo & Josè Brambila Macias, 2014. "Food Price Changes And Poverty In Zambia: An Empirical Assessment Using Household Microdata," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(4), pages 492-507, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:26:y:2014:i:4:p:492-507
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    1. Daniela Campus & Gianna Giannelli, 2016. "Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda," Working Papers - Economics wp2016_16.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
    2. Prifti, Ervin & Daidone, Silvio & Miguelez, Borja, 2017. "Impact of increases in food prices on consumer welfare in Lesotho," African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 12(1), March.
    3. Shinya TAKAMATSU, 2018. "Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis on Household Welfare and Poverty in Lao PDR," GSICS Working Paper Series 33, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University.

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