Higher food prices can reduce poverty and stimulate growth in food production.

The estimated coefficient on changes in the food-to-non-food CPI ratio is now highly significant ( P < 0.01) and still negative, whereas the interaction term is highly significant ( P < 0.01) but positive, suggesting that the beneficial impacts of higher food prices on poverty reduction are attenuated or even reversed for countries with higher urban population shares.

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