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The World Bank Group and the global food crisis : an evaluation of the World Bank Group response.
The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. International prices for food and other agricultural products increased by more than 100 percent between early 2007 and mid-2008. Prices for food cereals more than doubled; and those for rice doubled...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Independent evaluation studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. International prices for food and other agricultural products increased by more than 100 percent between early 2007 and mid-2008. Prices for food cereals more than doubled; and those for rice doubled in the space of just a few months. The food price increases were particularly hard on the poor and near-poor in developing countries, many of whom spend a large share of their income on food and have limited means to cope with price shocks. An estimated 1.29 billion people in 2008 lived on less than. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781464800924 1464800928 |