Do Price Increases for Staple Foods Help Or Hurt the Rural Poor?: Volume 167

Martin Ravallion

1989 ජන · World Bank Publications

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In the short run the rural rich in Bangladesh are likely to gain, and the rural poor to lose, from an increase in the relative price of food staples in a food producing economy. But in the long run the welfare of a typical poor household will be neutral to such price increases (after allowing for wage adjustment), and the poorest households will benefit somewhat.