Matt Collin over at Aid Thoughts has a good post summarizing some recent developments on the question of whether increases in food prices cause riots.
Published March 31, 2011
Category: Macro
Published March 30, 2011
Dear G-20, Please Do Not Tackle the Wrong Food Price Problem
A post on the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development’s (ICTSD) blog last week discussed a draft confidential report to the G-20 on food prices that was leaked:
“A confidential draft report from leading international agencies (…) aims to lay out ‘a blueprint for a systematic and internationally coordinated response’ to food price volatility in response to an explicit request from G-20 leaders at their November 2010 meeting in Seoul.”
The report, which can be found here, discusses price volatility as follows:
Published March 24, 2011
In Which I May or May Not Suffer from Confirmation Bias About Food Prices
As the title of this post indicates, confirmation bias may well be getting the better of me, but the main thesis of this Foreign Policy article by Annia Ciezadlo coincides with the findings of the empirical work I have been doing recently: