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Food Price Spikes and Social Unrest in Africa
Apr 18, 2013 | CCAPSSocial Conflict
In CCAPS Research Brief No. 11, Todd Smith seeks to unravel the complex and circular relationship between food prices and social unrest in Africa and to provide insight into potential causal mechanisms. His main finding is that a sudden increase in consumer food prices in a given month does contribute significantly to an increase in the probability of unrest in that month.