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Título:
Poverty Impacts of Changes in the Price of Agricultural Commodities: Recent Evidence from Argentina
Autor/es:
PEDRO E. MONCARZ; SERGIO BARONE; GERMAN CALFAT; RICARDO DESCALZI
Lugar:
Munich
Reunión:
Congreso; 16th Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group; 2014
Institución organizadora:
European Trade Study Group, ifo Institute y Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Resumen:
Argentina, like other land abundant countries, benefited greatly from the recent increase in the prices of agricultural commodities. However, and in despite of the benefits at the macro level, with a large share of the population with low and medium-low incomes, the increase in agricultural commodity prices has the potential to hurt an important part of the population through a raise in the price of goods that explain a large share of households expenditures, especially those that constitute the food-basket. The ex-ante evidence shows that this is expected to be the case. A less obvious channel, through changes in factor incomes would be more beneficial to the middle income households. The elimination of the VAT on the consumption of food and beverages would be enough to compensate for most of the negative effects derived from the increase in the world prices of agricultural commodities.