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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, James
Other Authors: Yu, Jiangyan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/147
Online Access:Full text available on IMF