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Have higher food prices hurt the poor, or helped them? So far everything we "know" about this topic comes from simulation studies, all of which estimate that poverty or hunger went up by somewhere between 63-160 million people as a result of higher food prices (see here and here and here for previous blogs by Dani on this topic). In a new IFPRI discussion paper I show that these simulations suffer from serious flaws, and that their results are largely contradicted by self-reported food insecurity trends from the Gallup World Poll. The poverty simulations are often quite nice studies, but they are partial equilibrium studies with no wage adjustments, no changes in other commodity prices (like fuel, cotton, coffee, minerals), and no changes in incomes (which were growing all around the developing world from 2000-2008). Hunger simulations have more fundamental problems. Basically they count calorie availability, but the problem with a food or a financial crisis is that it is an access shock, not a production shock. Hence the FAO had to rely on a USDA model (which included reduced "calorie imports") to provide estimates of changes in hunger during the crisis. Yet in my paper I show that USDA's estimates of calorie availability (from early 2008) seem to be contradicted by USDA's own historical data on cereal availability.
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Table 1—Some alternative estimates of global trends in self-reported food insecurity
Estimation scenarios | Estimated change in global food insecurity, 2005/06 to 2007/08 |
Raw results, 70 countries | -408 million |
Raw results, 70 countries, plus assumptions for 16 omissions | -326 million |
Raw results, 68 countries, after excluding China and India | +9 million |
Raw results, 69 countries, after excluding China | -132 million |
Raw results, China and India trends adjusted by error margins | -250 million |
Raw results, China and India reductions=3 percentage points | -63 million |
Predicted change with econometric model, 88 countries | -87 million |
Source: Headey (2011) estimates from Gallup World Poll data.
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