Food price rises cause discontent and stress among poor

When there's a shock, development wonks rush for their models and start calculating the impact on "the poor", based on how many millions slip into poverty when prices rise by X or GDP falls by Y. But what's extraordinary is how seldom researchers think to talk to poor people. When they do, the answers are revealing, as we found when we researched Living on a Spike, a report on the impact of the 2011 food price crisis, published on Tuesday by Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies.

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