Ivanic, MarosMartin, Will2012-05-302012-05-302008-04https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6723In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are also relatively poor. The impacts on poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects, and can only be determined by looking at real-world data. Results using household data for ten observations on nine low-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases in food prices appear likely to raise overall poverty in low income countries substantially.CC BY 3.0 IGOADVERSE IMPACTSAGRICULTURAL COMMODITIESAGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENTAGRICULTURAL PRICESAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTSAGRICULTURAL RESEARCHAGRICULTURAL WAGEAGRICULTURAL WAGESAGRICULTURAL WORKERSAVERAGE PRICESBASIC FOOD COMMODITIESCEREAL PRICESCHANGES IN POVERTYCHILD LABORCOMMODITY PRICECOMMODITY PRICESCONSUMER GOODSCONSUMPTION DATACOST OF LIVINGCULTURAL CHANGECUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTIONDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPING WORLDDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT INDICATORSDEVELOPMENT POLICYDEVELOPMENT RESEARCHDISTRIBUTION OF LANDDOMESTIC MARKETSDOMESTIC PRICESECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC STUDIESECONOMICSEGALITARIAN DISTRIBUTIONENERGY PRICESEXPENDITUREEXPENDITURESFACTOR PRICESFAMILY FARMSFARM HOUSEHOLDSFARM PRODUCTIVITYFARMERSFINANCIAL CRISISFOOD BUYERSFOOD COMMODITIESFOOD CONSUMERSFOOD ITEMSFOOD MARKETSFOOD POLICYFOOD PRICEFOOD PRICESFOOD PRODUCTSGLOBAL POVERTYHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD DATAHOUSEHOLD INCOMESHOUSEHOLD LEVELHOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDSHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHOUSEHOLD WELFAREIMPACT ON POVERTYINCOMEINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME LEVELSINCOME QUINTILEINCREASE POVERTYINDIVIDUAL COUNTRIESINFLATIONINFLATION RATEINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTELABOR MARKETLABOR MARKETSLACK OF INFORMATIONLARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLELEVEL OF POVERTYLIVING CONDITIONSLONG RUNLOW-INCOME COUNTRIESMARKET LIBERALIZATIONMARKET PRICEMARKET PRICESMEASUREMENT OF POVERTYMILKNATIONAL POVERTYNATIONAL POVERTY RATENEGATIVE IMPACTNET FOOD CONSUMERSNET INCOMENUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDSPOLICY CHANGESPOLICY MEASURESPOLICY OPTIONSPOLICY RESEARCHPOLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERPOORPOOR CONSUMERSPOOR COUNTRIESPOOR FARM HOUSEHOLDSPOOR FARMERSPOOR HOUSEHOLDSPOOR PEOPLEPOVERTY CHANGEPOVERTY COMPARISONSPOVERTY GAPPOVERTY IMPACTPOVERTY INCREASEPOVERTY INCREASESPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY OUTCOMESPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIESPRICE CHANGEPRICE CHANGESPRICE INCREASEPRICE INCREASESPRICING POLICYPRICING REFORMSPRO-POORPROGRESSPURCHASINGPURCHASING POWERPURCHASING POWER PARITYREAL INCOMESREDUCTION IN POVERTYREDUCTION OF POVERTYRESPECTRURALRURAL AREASRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL LABORRURAL PEOPLERURAL POORRURAL POVERTYRURAL POVERTY RATERURAL POVERTY RATESSALESALESSMALL FARMERSSUBSISTENCESUBSISTENCE FARMERSSUBSTITUTESSUPPLY FUNCTIONSTRADE LIBERALIZATIONUNSKILLED LABORURBAN AREASURBAN POORURBAN POVERTYVULNERABILITYWAGE RATESWELFARE IMPACTWORLD MARKETWORLD MARKETSWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4594