Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109480 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 368
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
This paper highlights the thinness of rice trade relative to wheat and maize, and the contrasting price volatility and tradability relations for wheat and maize, which display a positive correlation, and for rice, which show an inverse relation. The paper focuses on Southeast Asia, which hosts the world's biggest rice exporters and rice importers. Using the Granger causality tests to determine correlation, the analysis concludes that very low global trading activity in rice that tends to self-perpetuate its dampening effect on trade does not cause extreme rice price volatility in the region, but the other way around. Rice-importing countries appear to resort to self-sufficiency measures as insurance to compensate for the high risks of unreliable rice supply and unaffordable rice prices. What would it take for countries to regain their confidence in external rice trade? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Integrated Food Security Program provides a menu of policies for reducing and managing the chances of excessive rice price volatility.
Subjects: 
ASEAN cereal trade
ASEAN food security
ASEAN rice trade
rice price volatility
rice self-sufficiency programs
rice trade
JEL: 
F13
F14
Q17
Q18
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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