While a growing proportion of global food consumption is obtained through international
trade, there is an ongoing debate on whether this increased reliance on trade benefits or …

In early 2009, Manmohan Singh was reelected as prime minister of India following a
successful election campaign in which he emphasized his success in protecting his country …

India has pursued an active food security policy for many years by using a combination of
trade policy interventions, public distribution of food staples, and assistance to farmers …

Differential Export Tax (DET) rates, or the policy of imposing high export taxes on raw
commodities and low export taxes on processed goods, generate public revenues and …

This paper investigates the dynamics of agricultural price volatility based on a quantile
autoregression (QAR) model. The QAR model provides a flexible representation of the …

This paper investigates the implications of bounded speculative storage, storage bounded
from below at zero and above at a capacity, on commodity prices. Binding capacity mirrors …

Consideration of optimal commodity storage with different discount rates. Finding that, even
with a lower discount rate than private storage, optimal government-financed storage may …

Public stockholding remains a major concern in multilateral negotiations on agricultural
trade liberalisation. This paper focuses on identifying alternative policies to buffer …

In a develo** economy, the availability of storage infrastructure is considered essential for
two purposes; the reduction of post-harvest losses resulting in food shortage, and allowing …

The impact of food storage on food security is discussed theoretically with empirical
applications within the context of welfare economics. In the past, countries such as the …