Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269062 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/22/055
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The objective of the paper is to evaluate whether there is a change in the level or trend of food prices in fragile countries following the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The empirical evidence is based on Interrupted Time Series Analysis. The following findings are established. Firstly, an immediate and sustained positive effect is noted, indicating that for each month that passes after the Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war, food prices increase in most of the fragile countries. Secondly, if the Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war had not happened, the price level and its trend would have been at a significantly lower level in fragile countries. Thirdly, the Russia-Ukraine war intervention period slope is significantly and considerably higher than that of the Covid-19 indicating that the Russia-Ukraine war has increased food prices in fragile countries more proportionately than the Covid-19 pandemic did.
Subjects: 
Covid-19
Russia-Ukraine war
food prices
fragile countries
JEL: 
F52
K42
O17
O55
P16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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