dc.contributor.author | Durevall, Dick | |
dc.contributor.author | van der Weide, Roy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-25T10:40:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-25T10:40:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-11 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1403-2465 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37520 | |
dc.description | JEL: Q11, Q17, Q18, F15 | sv |
dc.description.abstract | This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference between domestic and international prices. Controls are relaxed after good harvests, leading to a surge in exports early in the season and rapidly rising prices later in the year. There is thus a strong case for removal of trade restrictions since they give rise
to price spikes, keep the long-term price of glutinous rice low, and thereby hinder increases in income from agriculture. Although this is a case study of Lao PDR, the findings may equally apply to other developing countries that export their staple food. | sv |
dc.format.extent | 39 | sv |
dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economics | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 607 | sv |
dc.subject | exports | sv |
dc.subject | food prices | sv |
dc.subject | free trade | sv |
dc.subject | rice prices | sv |
dc.subject | rice markets | sv |
dc.subject | sticky rice | sv |
dc.subject | welfare | sv |
dc.title | Importing High Food Prices by Exporting: Rice Prices in Lao PDR | sv |
dc.type | Text | sv |
dc.type.svep | report | sv |
dc.contributor.organization | Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg | sv |