The Impact of Food Inflation on Urban Poverty and Its Monetary Cost : Some Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations

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dc.creatorDessus, Sebastien
dc.creatorHerrera, Santiago
dc.creatorDe Hoyos, Rafael
dc.date2012-03-30T07:33:50Z
dc.date2012-03-30T07:33:50Z
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:09:47Z
dc.descriptionThis article uses a sample of 72 developing countries to estimate the change in the cost of alleviating urban poverty brought about by the recent increase in food prices. This cost is approximated by the change in the poverty deficit (PD), that is, the variation in financial resources required to eliminate poverty under perfect targeting. The results show that, for most countries, the cost represents less than 0.2% of gross domestic product. However, in the most severely affected, it may exceed 3%. In all countries, the change in the PD is mostly due to the negative real income effect of those households that were poor before the price shock, while the cost attributable to new households falling into poverty is negligible. Thus, in countries where transfer mechanisms with effective targeting already exist, the most cost-effective strategy would be to scale up such programs rather than designing tools to identify the new poor.
dc.identifierAgricultural Economics
dc.identifier01695150
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5644
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/415726
dc.languageEN
dc.relationhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectMeasurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Agriculture
dc.subjectNatural Resources
dc.subjectEnergy
dc.subjectEnvironment
dc.subjectOther Primary Products O130
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.subjectEconomic Development : Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
dc.subjectTransportation O180
dc.subjectSocialist Systems and Transitional Economies : Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250
dc.subjectAgriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis
dc.subjectPrices Q110
dc.subjectUrban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration
dc.subjectRegional Labor Markets
dc.subjectPopulation
dc.subjectNeighborhood Characteristics R230
dc.titleThe Impact of Food Inflation on Urban Poverty and Its Monetary Cost : Some Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations
dc.titleAgricultural Economics
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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