Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2011
Abstract
We simulate the impact of actual food price increase between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas and whether the household’s main income source is agricultural activities. We explicitly treat heterogeneity in food price changes and the patterns of consumption and production by merging a expenditure survey dataset and a price dataset at the provincial level or lower. While the increase of head count index is larger for non-agricultural households than agricultural households, the opposite is true for the poverty gap and poverty severity measures, because poor agricultural households are particularly vulnerable to food inflation.
Keywords
non-parametric regression, net consumption ratio, global food crisis, vulnerability
Discipline
Asian Studies | Growth and Development | Income Distribution
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
23
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 14-2011
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki.
Impact of Food Inflation on Poverty in the Philippines. (2011). 1-23.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1315
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in Food policy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.11.009