The impact of the increase in food prices on child poverty and the policy response in Mali

Sami Bibi (), John Cockburn (), Luca Tiberti () and Massa Coulibaly

Innocenti Working Papers from UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

Abstract: Since 2006, Mali has experienced the full effects of the global food crisis, with price increases of up to 67%. This study presents simulations of the impacts of this crisis and a number of policy responses with respect to the welfare of children. The impacts are analyzed in terms of monetary (food) poverty, nutrition, education, child labor and access to health services of children. According to simulations, food poverty among children would have increased from 41% to 51%, with a corresponding rise in caloric insufficiency from 32% to 40%, while the impacts on school participation, work and access to health services would have been relatively weak.

Keywords: child education; child health; child labour; child poverty; economic crisis; food crisis; nutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-agr and nep-cmp
Date: 2009

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=566 Full text (application/pdf)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=566 Compressed (application/zip)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucf:inwopa:inwopa09/66

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.unicef-ir ... rt.sql?ProductID=566
The price is Many older IRC publications are free of charge. However, some series are priced (Report Card, Social Monitor, Regional Monitoring Report). For details on this and the cost of despatch, according to quantity and destination, please visit the website www.unicef-irc.org.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Innocenti Working Papers from UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Address: Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12 50122
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Patrizia Faustini ().