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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.02.003
Titel (primär) The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
Autor Akter, S.; Basher, S.A.
Quelle Global Environmental Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
Department OEKON
Band/Volume 25
Seite von 150
Seite bis 162
Sprache englisch
Keywords Food price shock; Income shock; Global food crisis; Global financial crisis; Nested logit model; First difference estimator
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Abstract This paper examines the combined impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being in low-income rural communities. Using longitudinal survey data of 1800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over the period 2007–2009, we estimated a three-stage hierarchical logit model to identify the key sources of household food insecurity. The first-difference estimator was then employed to compare pre- and post-shock expenditure for those households that experienced acute food shortages and those that managed to avoid the worst impacts of the shocks. On the basis of our results we conclude that: (1) the soaring food prices of 2007–2009 unequivocally aggravated food insecurity in the rural areas of Bangladesh; (2) the subsequent income shocks of 2007–2009 contributed toward worsening food insecurity; (3) the adverse impacts of these shocks appeared to have faded over time due to labor and commodity market adjustments, regional economic growth, and domestic policy responses, leaving no profound impacts on households’ economic well-being in most cases; and (4) although the immediate adverse consequences of rising food prices were borne disproportionately by the poor, the longer term consequences were distributed more evenly across the rich and poor and were favorable for the day laborers.
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Akter, S., Basher, S.A. (2014):
The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
Glob. Environ. Change 25 , 150 - 162 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.02.003