Food price policy in an era of market instability : a political economy analysis / / Per Pinstrup-Andersen [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910153564703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-19-178801-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 508 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: WIDER studies in development economics
• Disciplina: 338.19090511
• Soggetti: Food prices - Government policy; Food supply - Government policy; Food supply - History - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. An Overview -- 1. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: An Overview / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Part II. Synthesis of Findings from Country Studies -- 2. International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries during the 2007-8 Food Crisis / Kenneth Baltzer -- 3. A Cacophony of Policy Responses: Evidence from Fourteen Countries during the 2007-8 Food Price Crisis / Shane Bryan -- 4. Policy Processes and Food Price Crises: A Framework for Analysis and Lessons from Country Studies / Suresh Chandra Babu -- 5. A Political Economy Synthesis: The Food Policy Crisis / Derrill D. Watson II -- Part III. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low-Income Landlocked Countries -- 6. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Ethiopia / Assefa Admassie -- 7. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Malawi / Ephraim W. Chirwa and Blessings Chinsinga -- 8. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Zambia / Antony Chapoto --; Part IV. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low-income Countries with Limited Dependence on Food Imports -- 9. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Kenya / Jonathan Makau Nzuma -- 10. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Mozambique / Virgulino Nhale, Claudio Massingarela, and Vincenzo Salvucci -- Part V. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low- and Middle-income Countries Heavily Dependent on Food Import -- 11. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Bangladesh / Selim Raihan -- 12. The ; Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt / Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim -- 13. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Nigeria / Aderibigbe S. Olomola -- 14. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Senegal / Danielle Resnick -- Part VI. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Large Exporters -- 15. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Vietnam / Nguyen Manh Hai and Theodore Talbot -- 16. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in India / Kavery Ganguly and Ashok Gulati --; 17. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in China / Jikun Huang, Jun Yang, and Scott Rozelle -- 18. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Brazil / Bernardo Mueller and Charles Mueller -- 19. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in South Africa / Johann F. Kirsten -- Part VII. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in High-income Countries -- 20. US Policy Contributions to Agricultural Commodity Price Fluctuations, 2006-12 / Gordon C. Rausser and Harry de Gorter -- 21. Food Price Volatility and EU Policies / Johan Swinnen, Louise Knops and Kristine van Herck -- Part VIII. Conclusions and Recommendations -- 22. The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: Key Policy-related Lessons / Per Pinstrup-Andersen.
• Sommario/riassunto: Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions.