Appendix A

Bibliography of useful price analysis materials

Alderman, H.  1992.  Intercommodity price transmittal: analysis of food markets in Ghana.

World Bank Working Paper No. 884.

Alderman, H. and A. Bernard.  1991.  Prices and markets in Ghana, Cornell Food and

Nutrition Policy Program, Working Paper No. 10.

Bartel, P., E.  Mamboue, J. Wright.  Undated.  Identifying market  catchment areas using

thiessan polygons.  FEWS Internal Working Paper.

Cutler, P.  1984.  Famine  forecasting: prices and peasant behavior in northern Ethiopia.

Disasters 8 (1): 48 56.

D Souza, F.  1989.  Famine and the art of early warning: the African experience. Report to

OFDA.

Goetz, S. and M. Weber.  1986.  Fundamentals of price  analysis in developing countries 

food systems.  Michigan State University Working Paper No. 29.

May, C.  1992.  Price data in a famine early warning system, FEWS Working Paper No. 2.7.

May, C.  1991.  Market Information System (SIM) in Chad: Issues and proposals.  FEWS

Working Paper No. 2.4.

Marion, B. 1986. The Organization and Performance of the U.S. Food System.  Lexington

Books, Lexington, Massachusetts.

Ravaillion, M.  1987.  Markets and famine.  Oxford: Oxford  University Press.

Steffen, P. and S. Addou.   Markets and Marketing Systems , training materials developed

for a FSAU training workshop in Hargeisa, Somalia, May 9   16, 1998.

Timmer, C. et al.  1983.  "Market functions, markets, and food price formation" (Chapter 4)

in Food policy analysis, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Tomek, W. G. and K. L. Robinson.  1981. Agricultural Product Prices. Cornell University

Press, Ithaca.

Wantz, W.  1959.  Towards a geography of prices.

Webb, P.  1990.  Prices and markets during famine: current understanding of early messages

in price data from Ethiopia, IFPRI mimeo.

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