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calorie consumption of individuals and how these changes affect overall food poverty. We illustrate our approach using … household survey data from Malawi. We find that food poverty is of serious concern with large within-country variations. We find … food buyers in rural and urban areas. This paper demonstrates that it is possible to estimate food security impacts of …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the welfare effects of food price changes on urban households' poverty and …, based on the poverty line, 41% of urban households were observed to be below the poverty line and the number of poor … vulnerability. This is achieved by using Hicksian price Compensating Variation (CV) and compensated price elasticities, based on …
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poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in rural Tanzania, by …The effects from the change in food prices on household welfare is a topical issue among policy makers and scholars in … Tanzania. However, relatively little is known about the quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare and …
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consumption, dietary diversity, and economic welfare effects of food price spikes among households in Nigeria. Using the 2012 …/2013 and 2015/2016 Household Survey Panel Data, the linear individual (fixed) effects models were estimated while controlling … vegetables exert heterogeneous influence. Female headed households advance calorie consumption and dietary variety. Findings …
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and severity of coping mechanisms for food insecurity resulting from the food price shock caused by the oil price crash …, currency devaluation and restrictions on foreign exchange. Nigeria's General Household Survey Panel data from 2012 and 2015 …
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environmental policies. We examine how households adjust food consumption to such shocks, by estimating the effects of fuel prices …
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countries under a three-pillar policy framework - supporting consumption, boosting production and regulating/managing food …
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and rural-urban location. In this paper, we focus on poor households vs. non-poor households using two definitions of …Evidence suggests that household responses to price and income changes are significantly sensitive across income levels … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …
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