Jayati Ghosh has a new article in Project Syndicate on food-price inflation, entitled: “Food-Price Inflation Hits Poorest the Hardest“:
Unlike some of the more systemic forces affecting food supply and prices in the medium term, policymakers could easily address the issues of stockpiling and speculation. But that requires governments to accept that these are problems, and to muster the will to address them. Until they do, food-price inflation will continue to hit the world’s poor the hardest.
