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Being Poor, Feeling Poorer: Combining objective and subjective measures of welfare in Albania
Carletto, Gero; Zezza, Alberto - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
As shown empirically for many transition economies, even small changes in assumptions on economies of size and adult equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and individuals. Since such exercises are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755000
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Do Futures Benefit Farmers Who Adopt Them?
Lence, Sergio H. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
on adopting farmers’ behavior and welfare, and its impact on market variables such as spot prices. Relevant constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755033
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Internal Mobility and International Migration in Albania
Carletto, Gero; Davis, Benjamin; Stampini, Marco; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
Using evidence from two recent data sources – the 2002 Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) and the 2001 Population Census of Albania – the paper documents the phenomena of internal and external migration in Albania, a country that in the past decade has experienced dramatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755055
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Aumento de precios en los mercados de alimentos - ¿Cómo deberían regularse los mercados de futuros?
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010
El acusado aumento de los precios de los alimentos en el periodo 2006-2008 desató el temor de una inseguridad alimentaria generalizada a nivel mundial. Además de los cambios acaecidos en la oferta y la demanda de algunos productos básicos, la tendencia alcista también ha podido verse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857131
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Price surges in food markets - How should organized futures markets be regulated?
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010
The drastic increase of food prices in the period 2006-2008 spurred fears of global food insecurity. Apart from actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857132
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Flambée des prix sur les marchés alimentaires - Comment réglementer les marchés à terme organisés ?
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010
L'augmentation drastique des prix des denrées alimentaires sur la période 2006-2008 a suscité des craintes concernant l'insécurité alimentaire mondiale. Outre les changements réels de l'offre et la demande de certains produits de base, la tendance à la hausse pourrait aussi avoir été...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857133
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Information Asymmetry and Economic Concentration: The case of hens and eggs in eastern Indonesia
Kristiansen, Stein - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
backyard chickens. Consumption of layer eggs has increased 12-fold over the past 30 years, and prices are lowered in central … areas of the country. In the outer islands, however, layer egg prices are high and eggs are of lower quality. This report …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755002
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Wages of War, Wages of Peace: Food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002
Maletta, Hector - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the … registered in food prices. However, the fluctuations were mostly due to changes in the value of currency, i.e. in the exchange … rate. Food prices in dollars have been remarkably stable, especially during the years 2001 and 2002. During the war years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755011
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Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia
Ngaruko, Floribert - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This study addresses the strategies and the factors of agricultural export performance in Africa compared with other regions, especially Asia. Regarding the figures of agricultural export performance across these regions, the study finds that agricultural export commodities, either primary or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755026
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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Ownership, Property Rights and Control in a Transition Economy
Scandizzo, Pasquale Lucio - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755029