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The Uruguay Round and Net Food Importers »
Source: The Uruguay Round and Net Food Importers
Volume/Issue: 1995/143
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Uwe Eiteljörge , and Clinton Shiells
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1995
ISBN: 9781451926958
Keywords: food imports, food aid, food prices, food import, round agreement
This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food prices, due to implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, for a sample of 57 deve...
IMF Is Helping Countries Respond to Food Price Crisis: UN food security conference »
Source: IMF Survey, Volume 37, Issue 06
Volume/Issue: 37/6
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 26 June 2008
ISBN: 9781451967807
Keywords: food prices, food security, food crisis, food production, food shortage
Food Price Crisis, Inflation Risks, Mark Plant, IMF and the Food Crisis, Multilateral Initiative, Middle East Regional OUtllok, Emerging Markets' Resilience, Côte d'Ivoire's Comeback, Ghana's Financial Reforms, Isl...
Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing »
Source: Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing : Evidence From Global Food Aid
Volume/Issue: 2003/40
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Erwin Tiongson , Benedict Clements , and Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2003
ISBN: 9781451845990
Keywords: Food aid, consumption smoothing, food availability, food production, food security,
Global food aid is considered a critical consumption smoothing mechanism in many countries. However, its record of stabilizing consumption has been mixed. This paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid wit...
Natural Disasters and Food Crises in Low-Income Countries »
Source: Natural Disasters and Food Crises in Low-Income Countries : Macroeconomic Dimensions
Volume/Issue: 2016/65
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Olumuyiwa Adedeji , Jana Gieck-Bricco , and Vera Kehayova
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 March 2016
ISBN: 9781513596013
Keywords: Natural disasters, Food decline, food, food crisis, food supply, food security, food production, Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Economic Growth of Open Economies
The exposure of low-income countries to natural disasters has a significant impact on food production and food security. This paper provides a framework for assessing a country's vulnerability to food crisis in the...