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GTAP Resource #2981

"Higher fuel and food prices: Impacts and responses for Mozambique"
by Benfica, Rui, Channing Arndt, Nelson Maximiano, Antonio Nucifora and James Thurlow


Abstract
Abstract: Rising world prices for fuel and food represent a negative terms-of-trade shock for Mozambique. The impacts of these price rises are analyzed using various approaches. Detailed price data show that the world price increases are being transmitted to domestic prices. Short-run net benefit ratio analysis indicates that urban households and households in the southern region are more vulnerable to food price increases. Rural households, particularly in the North and Center, often benefit from being in a net seller position. Longer-term analysis using a CGE model of Mozambique indicates that the fuel price shock dominates rising food prices from both macroeconomic and poverty perspectives. Again, negative impacts are larger in urban areas. The importance of agricultural production response in general and export response in particular is highlighted. Policy analysis reveals difficult trade-offs between short-run mitigation and long-run growth. Improved agricultural productivity has powerful positive impacts, but remains difficult to achieve and may not address the immediate impacts of higher prices.


Resource Details (Export Citation) GTAP Keywords
Category: 2009 Conference Paper
Status: Published
By/In: Agricultural Economics; Presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Santiago, Chile
Date: 2008
Version:
Created: Benfica, R. (4/8/2009)
Updated: Batta, G. (10/26/2012)
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- Economic analysis of poverty
- Calibration and parameter estimation
- The GTAP Data Base and extensions
- Africa (Southern)


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