Impact of food inflation on poverty in the Philippines

• Main Author: FUJII, Tomoki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Non-parametric regression; Net consumption ratio; Global food crisis; Vulnerability; Philippines; Asian Studies; Growth and Development; Public Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2163; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3163/viewcontent/Impact_of_Food_Inflation_on_Poverty_in_the_Philippines_pp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We simulate the impact of food inflation between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas and between agricultural and non-agricultural households. We explicitly treat the spatial heterogeneity in food inflation and the differences in consumption and production patterns across households by merging household expenditure survey and price datasets at the provincial level or lower. Although some of the poor agricultural households may have escaped poverty, the poorest of the poor, whether they are in an agricultural household or not, are severely and adversely affected by the food inflation.