eprintid: 10439
rev_number: 14
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Badolo, F
creators_name: Traore, E
icrisatcreators_name: Badolo, F
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bamako)
affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington)
country: Mali
country: USA
title: Impact of Rising World Rice Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Burkina Faso
ispublished: pub
subjects: S2021
subjects: s2.4
subjects: s28
subjects: s33
subjects: s36
subjects: s4009
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Developing countries, market pricing, poverty, inequality, rising rice prices, poverty and income
inequality, Burkina Faso, increase income inequality, Rice
note: The authors thank Catherine Araujo Bonjean and Nicolas Minot for their helpful comments.
abstract: Between January 2006 and April 2008, the prices of most agricultural products rose considerably in international markets. Empirical studies show that this spike in world food prices increased the number of poor households in developing countries, but the extent was not the same in all countries. This article assesses the impact of rising rice prices on poverty and income inequality in Burkina Faso, using a methodology based on the concept of compensating variation combined with the net benefit ratio (NBR) developed by Deaton (1989) and a living standard survey (QUIBB, 2003). The results show that higher prices have a negative impact on income and poverty in the regions with a large proportion of households that are net buyers of rice. The poverty rate increases by 2.2 to 2.9 percentage points depending on the assumptions, the increase being higher in urban areas than in rural areas. Rising rice prices also increase income inequality, which increases particularly in urban areas and in relatively rich regions, but decreases in poor regions with a large proportion of rice producers.
date: 2015-03
date_type: published
publication: Development Policy Review
volume: 33
number: 2
publisher: Wiley
pagerange: 221-244
id_number: 10.1111/dpr.12099
refereed: TRUE
issn: 09506764
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12099
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citation:   Badolo, F and Traore, E  (2015) Impact of Rising World Rice Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Burkina Faso.  Development Policy Review, 33 (2).  pp. 221-244.  ISSN 09506764     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10439/1/Impact%20of%20rising%20world%20rice%20prices%20on%20poverty%20and%20inequality%20in%20Burkina%20Faso.pdf