Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51455
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 674
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the causes, effects and policy alternatives associated with the recent international food price crisis in the Andean region. Additionally, the document makes a first approach to the policy options utilized to confront the crisis, discussing the mix of policies and their potential effectiveness, using a qualitative methodology based in part on schemes proposed in Manzano and Stein (2008), and Malarín (2008). A final section underscores various messages common to the countries of the region. Specifically, the report concludes that this crisis offers a great opportunity for transforming its uncertainties and costs into a stimulus for maturing an infrastructure of prevention and reduction of vulnerabilities in the Andean economies.
Subjects: 
Food crisis
Distributive impact
Simulation
Compensatory policies
Andean region
JEL: 
O20
O18
I30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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