Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh … Integrated Nutrition Program (BINP) has played a small role, if any, in this progress, which is mainly attributable to higher …

48.95 percent of income) on food articles yielding energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line … contribution of proteins to the calorie intake is ranging between 9.55 and 10.64 percent across different income and food habit … hard by the dietary imbalance in food. Logit analysis of incidence of sickness suggests that the probability of a person …

their wage earning on food articles. Thus, in case of a casual labourer, the dichotomy of consumption and investment …. 516.6 on an average and they spend a meager amount (Rs. 252.9 only or 48.95 percent of income) on food articles yielding … ranging between 9.55 and 10.64 percent across different income and food habit groups with the mean value of 10.16 percent …

-run tradeoffs. I present the first nonlaboratory test of this implication using data on the nutritional intake of food stamp … recipients. Caloric intake declines by 10 to 15 percent over the 30-day period following receipt of food stamps, implying a … several alternative explanations, including high elasticities of intertemporal substitution, strategic interactions and food …

requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output allocated to Malawi. However, as a result of population growth food … demands exceeded the carrying capacity of household land whose quality also diminished resulting in steep decline in food … observes that Malawi spends more on maize imports than on petroleum imports, and describes food problem as a rupturing time …

deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be …-cyclical in China over the past two decades. …

This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …