Contents
Effects of food price on food security and poverty in Latin America : a shapley decomposition approach / Maria Daniela C. Velez ; Jae Bong Chang 1
Abstract 1
I. Introduction 1
II. Background 3
1. Poverty in Latin America 3
2. State of Food Security 4
III. Method and Data 6
1. Conceptual Framework and Model Specification 6
2. Food and Non-food Price Elasticity of Poverty 8
3. Empirical Model Specification 10
4. Data 13
IV. Results 14
V. Conclusion 20
References 24