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Assessing the geographic impact of higher food prices in Guinea

Author:	Coulombe, Harold; Wodon, Quentin;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4743
Country:	Guinea;	Date Stored:	2008/10/01
Document Date:	2008/10/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Africa
Report Number:	WPS4743	SubTopics:	Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping; Achieving Shared Growth; Rural Poverty Reduction; Population Policies
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Telling a policy maker that poverty will increase due to the recent increase in food prices is not very useful; telling the policy makers where the impact is likely to be larger is better, so that measures to cope with the impact of the crisis can be targeted to areas that need them the most. This paper shows how to use poverty mapping techniques to assess where higher food prices are likely to hurt the most using Guinea census and survey data as a case study. The results suggest that in the case of a rice price increase, the poorest areas of the country will not be the hardest hit, especially if the potential positive impact of higher food prices on rice producers is taken into account, in which case poverty may decline in some of these areas even if for the country as a whole poverty will increase significantly due to the large share of rice in the household consumption budget.


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