Local impacts of a global crisis: Food price transmission, consumer welfare and poverty in Ghana

Food Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 294-302

  Cudjoe, Godsway ^a   Breisinger, Clemens ^b   Diao, Xinshen ^b  

^a Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP)   (Ghana)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Food crisis; Ghana; Household welfare; Poverty; Price transmission; Threshold cointegration

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; FOOD MARKET; FOOD SUPPLY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POVERTY; PRICE DYNAMICS; SELF SUFFICIENCY; THRESHOLD; WELFARE IMPACT;

GHANA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77953537446     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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