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Table 10 Conditional volatility in food prices in developing countries by food group

From: Analysis of long-term prices of micronutrient-dense and starchy staple foods in developing countries

Country

Micronutrient-dense foods

Starchy staples

P-value

Country

Micronutrient-dense foods

Starchy staples

P value

India

0.044

0.032

1.000

Peru

0.076

0.010

0.000

Philippians

0.019

0.018

1.000

Tunisia

0.020

0.019

0.469

Azerbaijan

0.019

0.029

1.000

South Africa

0.026

0.022

0.994

Costa Rica

0.035

0.041

0.680

Samoa

0.073

0.060

0.881

Dominican Republic

0.034

0.022

0.004

Tajikistan

0.021

0.097

1.000

El Salvador

0.075

0.047

0.001

Kenya

0.041

0.078

0.944

Georgia

0.029

0.027

0.832

Uganda

0.111

0.099

0.251

Haiti

0.026

0.051

1.000

Nicaragua

0.082

0.022

0.000

Kazakhstan

0.013

0.023

1.000

Burundi

0.110

0.085

0.117

Mauritania

0.029

0.026

0.637

Botswana

0.010

0.015

0.874

Mongolia

0.070

0.028

0.000

Cameroon

0.046

0.018

0.000

Kyrgyzstan

0.017

0.038

1.000

    
  1. The parameters presented are “garch” parameters, also known as b1 parameters in Eq. 3, which was our interest. We then tested the difference in the variance using F statistics