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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Auteur principal: Walsh, James
Autres auteurs: Yu, Jiangyan
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/147
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF