The effects of changing food prices on welfare and poverty in Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3886470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Robles (CGIAR, corresponding author), Meagan Keefe |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 578-589 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614524.2011.561293 |
| OpenAlex | W2030133548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
This study analyses the welfare and poverty effects of the 2007–08 food-price crisis on households in Guatemala. Estimates reveal that the price increases negatively affected 96.4 per cent of households and resulted in a 1.1 per cent increase in the national poverty rate. On average, households lose 2.3 per cent of their expenditure capacity, and high food prices have a regressive negative effect. The total welfare loss for all households in the country is estimated to be nearly 2 per cent of national aggregate expenditure, but the cost of compensating the poorest households would be only 0.5 per cent of national aggregate expenditure
Aggregate expenditure · Agriculture · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Food prices · Food security · Geography · Poverty · Poverty rate · Public economics · Welfare · Agricultural risk and resilience · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |