Distributional Effects of Maize Price Increases in Malawi.
In the wake of highly volatile world prices of staple commodities, we examine the impacts of increases in maize prices on various categories of households in Malawi. Using household-level data, changes in household income are calculated taking into account the net maize production status of the hous...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 258 - 276 |
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