Although consumption expenditure data is crucial for assessing the level of peoples welfare and calculating important …, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as … simpler alternatives to using consumption expenditure. The idea is not to use these alternatives as a substitute for …

, and analyzing them separately may yield results that are useful for public policy. Hence, we analyze the consumption … 120,309 households, has been used for this purpose. We found that most forms of tobacco consumption are higher among … consumption were found to be signifcant factors determining tobacco consumption habits of Indian households. The effect of some of …

foreign exchange reserves, utility-maximizing representative agents decide consumption, capital stock, and labor input, as … a permanent decline in consumption. However, when the tradable sector is capital intensive, the increase may enhance … shortens debt maturity. The results also imply that increased foreign exchange reserves may lead to a decline in consumption …

The aim of this paper is to examine if tobacco consumption crowds-out consumption of basic needs and whether it has … commodities by the status of tobacco consumption of households. Average per capita per diem intake of nutrients such as calorie … consumption of certain commodities such as milk, clean fuels and entertainment which has direct bearing on mostly children and …

consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. … agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of …

The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …

employment rate. Our illustrative application to China shows that gradually increasing the current low minimum age of retirement …

In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …

The rise of China has major repercussions for a country such as Bangladesh which has emerged as an important player in … more than one player. Evidently, impact and implications of competition from China will have to be examined and scrutinized …