The cost of gaps in existing food price-stabilizing market policies in urban areas for poor women and their families: The case of Addis Ababa
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Food inflation has been a challenge in Ethiopia since prices of staple foods started
rising in 2005, particularly threatening the food security of relatively poor and
marginalized groups, such as women. However, there is limited research on the
actual impact of food price surges and government-responsive programs on poor
women. This study investigates the effect of food inflation and its coping
mechanisms vis-à-vis government response programs from the perspective of poor
women through consciously adopting feminist economics as a theoretical and
interpretive framework. This was accomplished by taking into consideration
women’s gender-based privations and other facets of their identities and
lived realities.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Food security, Economics, Poverty, feminism, Ethiopia