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This paper contributes to the existing literature on climatic variability and food security. It analyses the impact of climatic variability on food security for 71 developing countries, from 1960 to 2008. Using two complementary indicators of food security (food supply and proportion of...
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National early warning systems of Sahelian countries are mainly based on biophysics models to predict agricultural production shortages and prevent food crisis. The objective of this paper is to show that cereal market prices also bring useful information on future food availability that could...
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in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the …
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. Finally, our estimates suggest that the external effect of China’s renminbi, which has been the focus of the profession thus … far, might be “the tip of the iceberg”: the latter two results carry over when China’s trade data are excluded from the …
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specifications, we present a much clearer picture of FDI dispersion and spatial convergence across China by highlighting the …
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The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … different dimensions considered. My results show that there has been a significant increase in inequality in China between 1997 …
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China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period …. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of convergence within China, stronger if this is conditional than absolute …
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Since the implementation of the economic reforms in 1978, there is a remarkable diversification trend in rural China …-industry diversification in rural China. …
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This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...
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In this paper, basing on panel data on Chinese provincial level from 1991-2000, we test, firstly, the existence of EKC for industrial SO2 emission density. Following, we decompose the economical determinants of this SO2 emission density into: income effect (GDPPC), scale effect (Industrial GDP...
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