TY - JOUR
T1 - Distributional Effects of Maize Price Increases in Malawi
AU - Caracciolo, Francesco
AU - Cembalo, Luigi
AU - Lombardi, Alessia
AU - Thompson, Gary
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - 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 household and food price elasticities estimated from a censored demand system. While maize price increases have unequivocal deleterious effects on the incomes of urban households, rural households experience differential impacts. Net producing households in rural areas benefit from price increases with households above the poverty line obtaining proportionally higher incomes.
AB - 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 household and food price elasticities estimated from a censored demand system. While maize price increases have unequivocal deleterious effects on the incomes of urban households, rural households experience differential impacts. Net producing households in rural areas benefit from price increases with households above the poverty line obtaining proportionally higher incomes.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2013.833319
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2013.833319
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893854736
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 50
SP - 258
EP - 275
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
IS - 2
ER -