Abstract:The article argues that the question of what are the most effective policies to address the food price crisis remains largely unanswered, despite the huge analytical effort to understand its causes and consequences. Partly, this is because instruments of policy analysis are based either on a description of interventions, lacking any assessment of the merits of the policy, or on sophisticated, country-specific quantitative analyses sensitive to assumptions and data limitations. The article uses an intermediate … Show more
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