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A Consistent Food Demand Framework for International Food Security Assessment

  • by Birgit Meade, Stacey Rosen and John Beghin
  • 6/29/2015
  • TB-1941

Overview

A new approach to modeling food security incorporates price effects and variation in food quality across consumers with different income levels, with Tanzania and its main staple, corn, as an example. Errata: On November 13, 2015, in section "Calibration for Good i," the equation under step 2, found at the bottom of page 6, was corrected by dividing wi by pi.

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