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This paper examines the patterns of food consumption in Sri Lanka from 1985 to 2009 using the food disappearance data … published by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Trends in per capita daily calorie, protein and fat supply have been … examined. The study finds that grain food products are the main source of calories and protein, while fat-calories were mainly …
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interventions to reduce beggar-thy-neighbor unilateral trade policy responses to food price fluctuations. …
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competitiveness, for example by obtaining off-farm employment, the farm-nonfarm household income gap may increase. A decline in food … self-sufficiency may be perceived as undermining national food security, and a persistent farm-nonfarm income gap as … consider for ensuring adequate long-term food security and less income inequality? This paper evaluates China's historical …
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What are the root causes of Africa's current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the legacy of extractive colonial institutions, or the fallout of malaria? We investigate the relative contributions of these factors using an instrumental variable approach. The...
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the 2001 Living Standard Measurement Survey. The incidence of inadequate food consumption and vulnerability to food …
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the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies …
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Food security is an important social objective and relying on international food markets to meet the needs of Indonesia …'s growing population is precarious. The policy of restricting food imports through tariffs or quantitative restrictions promotes … the goal of food self-sufficiency, but does so at the cost of reducing the food security of the most vulnerable people â …
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This paper has two main objectives. First, it computes capital flight (CF) through trade misinvoicing from India using … data from UNCOMTRADE, MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity and IMF E-library. India’s trade with 17 countries over the … least some of the failures of current macroeconomic policy in India could be attributed to CF. …
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Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its … until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India …
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relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … bias in education and argue that for approximately half of India's children the Right to Education Act must involve …
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