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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004

Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of …

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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy

Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …, poverty and undernutrition are significantly higher for the households with access to PDS than those without, whilst PDS has …

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Determinants of Undernutrition in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2003

strictly comparable with the earlier rounds. We also analyse logit models of determinants of undernutrition. …

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Growth in Densely Populated Asia: Implications for Primary Product Exporters

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

Economic growth and integration in Asia is rapidly increasing the global economic importance of the region. To the extent that this growth continues and is strongest in natural resource-poor Asian economies, it will add to global demand for imports of primary products, to the benefit of...

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Could the proposed WTO Special Safeguard Mechanism protect farmers from low international prices?

Thennakoon, Jayanthi; Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper offers an empirical analysis of the proposal by some developing countries for an agricultural Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the World Trade Organization. It draws on political economy and market theory to demonstrate that the loss-averting domestic producer benefits that...

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Root Causes of African Underdevelopment

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

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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Vulnerability and poverty in Timor-Lesté

Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

Economists have long recognized that a household's well-being depends not just on its average income or expenditure, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish...

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Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Rapidly Changing Role of RiceAbstract: Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress...

Timmer, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to...

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Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Rapidly Changing Role of Rice

Timmer, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress has been made in the past half century in bringing most of the population out of poverty and hunger. Measured by the key determinants of food security—improved availability, access, utilisation...

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