Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India

Manoj Panda and Anand Ganesh-Kumar

No 930, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This paper attempts to assess the impact of trade liberalization on growth, poverty, and food security in India with the help of a national-level computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The results show that the gross domestic product (GDP) growth and income-poverty reduction projected to occur following trade liberalization do not necessarily improve the food security and/or nutritional status of the poor. Evidence from simulations of (partial) trade reforms reflecting a possible Doha-like scenario show that the bottom 30 percent of the population in both rural and urban areas would suffer a decline in calorie and protein intake, in contrast to the rest of the population, even as all households increase their intake of fats. The food security / nutritional status outcome with regard to individual nutrients depends crucially on movements in the relative prices of different commodities along with changes in income levels. These results show that trade policy analysis should consider indicators of food security in addition to the overall growth and poverty measures traditionally considered in such studies.

Keywords: food security; nutrition; computable general equilibrium models; globalization; markets; trade; India; Southern Asia; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-cmp, nep-cwa and nep-dev
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Downloads: (external link)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161997

Related works:
Working Paper: Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Food Security in India (2008)
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: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:ifprid:930

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().