Liberalization and food price distributions: ARCH-M evidence from Madagascar

Food Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-173

  Barrett, Christopher B ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food marketing; Price risk; Structural adjustment

Indexed keywords

ARCH-M METHOD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOD PRICES; NATIONAL ECONOMY; PRICE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0031460806     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9192(96)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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