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Global leaders misdiagnose world food price crisis - Christopher B. Barrett, professor of Applied Economics and Management

"Increased food price volatility is not itself a problem for either poverty or political stability. The problem is that policymakers and many pundits are confusing the two, and mistakenly asserting that price volatility, not high food-price levels, is aggravating poverty problems and causing political unrest."

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