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Highlights: Food commodity prices declined in the third quarter of 2022 from their all-time highs in April. Grain supplies will be lower this season, however...

Highlights The agricultural and cereal price indices remained stable over the past two weeks and are currently 1 point higher. Domestic food price inflation...

This report on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Outlook examines: the economic environment globally and in the region; takes a detailed look at what better governance would...

The war in Ukraine and aftershocks from the COVID-19 pandemic present Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs) with an extremely challenging external environment shaped by sharply higher food, fertilizer...

Liberia’s economy is still recovering from years of poor economic and social performance. Owing in part to repeated exogenous shocks, including the Ebola outbreak, the collapse of iron ore...

Highlight On international markets, prices of grains (wheat, maize) and vegetable oils (rapeseed, sunflower, soybean, palm) have been rising since mid-2020. Biofuels play a...

The Moroccan economy staged a strong recovery in 2021. However, Morocco is once again suffering the impact of a string of adverse shocks. The beginning of the agricultural season has been...

This paper discusses the possibility that today’s food price crisis, in the absence of urgent action, might turn into a fully-blown hunger crisis in many parts of the world, creating a situation...

While the negative impacts of COVID-19 appear to be receding, households in the Lao PDR are facing new and emerging challenges, some as aftershocks of the pandemic, according to the latest...

The war in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022. Besides devastating the lives of the population of Ukraine and decimating key parts of the infrastructure and economy of the country, the armed conflict has...