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Infrastructure spend: insights from the effect of a bridge across the Zambezi on maize prices

Investments in infrastructure – such as roads – typically aim to reduce transport costs, stimulate trade, and make new production activities viable. Across sub-Saharan Africa, the need for such investments is...

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Food price policy in an era of market instability - a political economy analysis
4 March 2015
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
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Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam

Presented at: A Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen : New Direction in the Fight Against hunger and Malnutrition. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Presentation See full programme New directions in the fight against hunger and...

13 December 2013 – 14 December 2013
Cornell University, 109 Tower Rd, Ithaca, United States
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Policymakers' responses to food price crises

Policymakers' responses to food price crises: Results from a 14-Country political economy study

2 May 2013
International Food Policy Research Institute , 2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States
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Political economy of food price policy

This was the third and final meeting of participants in the Political Economy of Food Price Policy project , which is jointly led by UNU-WIDER, Cornell University, and the University of Copenhagen and partially supported by the Bill and Melinda...

10 July 2012 – 12 July 2012
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Workshop
Second project workshop of the political economy of food price policy

Collaborating Institutions in this project were Cornell University and the University of Copenhagen. Please refer to the research page for more information: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy .

24 February 2012 – 25 February 2012
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Menelik II Ave, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Workshop
The political economy of food price policy

Please refer to the The Political Economy of Food Price Policy project page for more information.

4 April 2011 – 5 April 2011
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
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UNU-WIDER 25th Anniversary Conference: The Triple Crisis – Finance, Food and Climate Change

In the 25 years of UNU-WIDER’s existence both foundational and responsive research have been carried out, aiming to be innovative and relevant in advancing development economics research and policy-making with a strong focus on poverty...

13 May 2010 – 15 May 2010
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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