Assessing the geographic impact of higher food prices in Guinea / Harold Coulombe, Quentin Wodon.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Coulombe, Harold, 1963-

Contributor:

World Bank.

Wodon, Quentin.

Series:

Policy research working papers ; 4743.

World Bank e-Library.

Policy research working paper ; 4743

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food prices--Guinea.

Food prices.

Poverty--Guinea.

Poverty.

Other Title:

Policy research working paper vol. 4743

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2008]

System Details:

data file

Summary:

"Telling a policy maker that poverty will increase due to the recent increase in food prices is not very useful; telling the policy makers where the impact is likely to be larger is better, so that measures to cope with the impact of the crisis can be targeted to areas that need them the most. This paper shows how to use poverty mapping techniques to assess where higher food prices are likely to hurt the most using Guinea census and survey data as a case study. The results suggest that in the case of a rice price increase, the poorest areas of the country will not be the hardest hit, especially if the potential positive impact of higher food prices on rice producers is taken into account, in which case poverty may decline in some of these areas even if for the country as a whole poverty will increase significantly due to the large share of rice in the household consumption budget. "--World Bank web site.

Notes:

Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/12/2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

Publisher Number:

10.1596/1813-9450-4743