This paper investigates the link between competitive, well-functioning food markets and consumer welfare. The paper explores two key food markets in Kenya -- sugar and maize -- and argues that a variety of factors conspire to distort market prices upward. Distortionary factors include import tariff policy, nontariff barriers, potential anticompetitive conduct by firms, and direct state intervention in markets. Changes in sugar and maize prices are...
Voir la suite
INFORMATION
-
2015/01/01
-
Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
-
WPS7179
-
1
-
1
-
2015/01/01
-
Disclosed
-
Competition in Kenyan markets and its impact on income and poverty : a case study on sugar and maize
-
sugar price