Inflation and Income Inequality : Is Food Inflation Different? /

There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food in...

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Autor principal: Walsh, James
Outros Autores: Yu, Jiangyan
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/147
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF