Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare : Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe; Lucchetti, Leonardo

dc.creator	Ferreira, Francisco H.G.
dc.creator	Fruttero, Anna
dc.creator	Leite, Phillippe
dc.creator	Lucchetti, Leonardo
dc.date	2012-03-19T18:04:58Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T18:04:58Z
dc.date	2011-05-01
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-17T20:59:44Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-17T20:59:44Z
dc.identifier	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110928105536
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3581
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/244545
dc.description	Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was seven percent. Using spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys, we estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a large food producer, with a predominantly wage-earning agricultural labor force, our estimates include general equilibrium effects on market and transfer incomes, as well as the standard estimates of changes in consumer surplus. While the expenditure (or consumer surplus) effects were large, negative and markedly regressive everywhere, the market income effect was positive and progressive, particularly in rural areas. Because of this effect on the rural poor, and of the partial protection afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U-shaped, with middle-income groups suffering larger proportional losses than the very poor. Nevertheless, since Brazil is 80 percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level.
dc.language	English
dc.relation	Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 5652
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL LABOUR
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL PRICE
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL PRICES
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL SECTORS
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL WAGES
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL WORKFORCE
dc.subject	AGRICULTURE
dc.subject	ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
dc.subject	AVERAGE PRICE
dc.subject	BASIC FOODSTUFFS
dc.subject	BEEF
dc.subject	CA
dc.subject	CARIBBEAN REGION
dc.subject	CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM
dc.subject	CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS
dc.subject	CASH TRANSFERS
dc.subject	CEREALS
dc.subject	COMMODITY PRICE
dc.subject	COMMODITY PRICES
dc.subject	CONDIMENTS
dc.subject	CONSUMER PRICE
dc.subject	CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
dc.subject	CONSUMER PRICES
dc.subject	CONSUMER SURPLUS
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
dc.subject	COST OF LIVING
dc.subject	COUNTERFACTUAL
dc.subject	DAIRY
dc.subject	DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY
dc.subject	DOMESTIC PRICES
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	EGGS
dc.subject	EXTREME POVERTY
dc.subject	FACTOR PRICES
dc.subject	FAMILY FARMS
dc.subject	FARM HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject	FARM INCOME
dc.subject	FARM INCOMES
dc.subject	FARM LABOR
dc.subject	FARM PRODUCTION
dc.subject	FARM WORKERS
dc.subject	FARM-GATE
dc.subject	FARMERS
dc.subject	FATS
dc.subject	FEEDS
dc.subject	FLOUR
dc.subject	FOOD BUYERS
dc.subject	FOOD COMMODITIES
dc.subject	FOOD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	FOOD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
dc.subject	FOOD EXPENDITURE
dc.subject	FOOD ITEMS
dc.subject	FOOD MARKETS
dc.subject	FOOD PRICE
dc.subject	FOOD PRICE INFLATION
dc.subject	FOOD PRICES
dc.subject	FOOD PRICING
dc.subject	FOOD PRODUCER
dc.subject	FOOD PRODUCTION
dc.subject	FOOD SALES
dc.subject	FOODS
dc.subject	FRUIT
dc.subject	GRAINS
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subject	HOUSING
dc.subject	IMPACT ON POVERTY
dc.subject	INCOME
dc.subject	INCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	INCOME EFFECTS
dc.subject	INCOME GAINS
dc.subject	INCOME GROWTH
dc.subject	INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INEQUALITY
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.subject	LABOR MARKETS
dc.subject	LEGUMES
dc.subject	MAIZE
dc.subject	MARKET POWER
dc.subject	MEAT
dc.subject	METROPOLITAN REGION
dc.subject	METROPOLITAN REGIONS
dc.subject	MILK
dc.subject	NEW POOR
dc.subject	OILS AND FATS
dc.subject	PASTA
dc.subject	PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	POLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subject	POVERTY DYNAMICS
dc.subject	POVERTY GAP
dc.subject	POVERTY INCIDENCE
dc.subject	POVERTY INCREASE
dc.subject	POVERTY INDICES
dc.subject	POVERTY LINE
dc.subject	POVERTY LINES
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subject	POVERTY POVERTY
dc.subject	POVERTY RATES
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	PRICE CHANGE
dc.subject	PRICE CHANGES
dc.subject	PRICE EFFECT
dc.subject	PRICE INCREASE
dc.subject	PRICE INCREASES
dc.subject	PRICE INDEX
dc.subject	PRICE INFLATION
dc.subject	PRICE VARIATION
dc.subject	PRICE VOLATILITY
dc.subject	PRICING REFORMS
dc.subject	PURCHASING
dc.subject	REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
dc.subject	REGIONAL PRICE
dc.subject	REGIONAL VARIATION
dc.subject	RURAL
dc.subject	RURAL AREAS
dc.subject	RURAL POOR
dc.subject	RURAL POPULATION
dc.subject	SAVINGS
dc.subject	SHARECROPPERS
dc.subject	SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subject	SOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subject	SOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subject	STARCHES
dc.subject	SUBSISTENCE
dc.subject	SUBSTITUTE
dc.subject	SUBSTITUTION
dc.subject	SUGAR
dc.subject	SUGARS
dc.subject	SUPPLY CURVE
dc.subject	SURPLUS
dc.subject	TARGETING
dc.subject	TRANSFER AMOUNTS
dc.subject	TRANSFER PROGRAMS
dc.subject	TUBERS
dc.subject	VEGETABLES
dc.subject	VOLATILITY
dc.subject	WELFARE MEASURE
dc.subject	WHEAT
dc.title	Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare : Evidence from Brazil in 2008
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
dc.type	Publications & Research
dc.coverage	Latin America & Caribbean
dc.coverage	South America
dc.coverage	America
dc.coverage	Brazil