Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126373 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/013
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then used to evaluate the distributional impacts of food price changes in terms of compensating variation. The paper finds that: (a) poor households are the most affected by food price volatility and (b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike.
Subjects: 
price volatility
consumer welfare
Cameroon
JEL: 
D12
P46
Q18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-898-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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