Food price increases and net food importing countries: Lessons from the recent past

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 443-452

  Ng, Francis ^a   Aksoy, M Ataman ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food policy; Food prices; Food trade balance; Net food importing countries

Indexed keywords

FOOD MARKET; FOOD POLICY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROWTH RATE; IMPORT; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 57549108656     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2008.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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