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The paper analyses the 1996 EU food aid reform and addresses the question of its impact on improving EU food aid allocation in terms of reaching those countries which are most vulnerable to food insecurity. Using a two-stage regression model the analysis finds that EU food aid in kind is...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine politically sensitive food safety problems from the viewpoint of political economy. The model was built in order to clarify the behaviors of consumers and politicians, employing the prospect theory and the median voter theorem. Major findings and policy...
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The relationship between socioeconomic status and health is dynamic and evolves throughout the adult life course. However, relatively little empirical attention has been directed to the role of health affecting lifestyle choices in explaining these dynamics. Using Norwegian repeated...
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. At the village level, a land market does not influence the poverty outcome of the reform but reduces its inequality …
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Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and … Thailand. However, even a large inequality is observed within the lagging regions. The objective of this paper is to look into … what are the sources of within region inequality using the community surveys and a census type of households in Western …
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This paper performs inequality decomposition by income sources using data from three different continents, using a … unified inequality decomposition approach. Household survey data from Ethiopia, Georgia and Korea are used for this purpose …-farm labor income by 1% uniformly results in a lower Gini index of inequality. These results shed light on the processes that …
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This article analyses determinants for 2001 farmland rental prices from 4376 farms in Germany. We derive our regression equation from a spatial reaction function to allow for spatial transmission of rental prices. Results from a general spatial model show that a € 1 per hectare higher rental...
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A key issue in political economy concerns the accountability that governance structures impose on public officials and how elections and representative democracy influences the allocation of public resources. In this paper we exploit a unique survey data set from nearly 2450 randomly selected...
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Point forecasts are a common method to classify uncertain future outcomes. In the option price literature the concept of implied volatility is well known. This concept is used to get a forward looking indicator about the future volatility. Nowadays market expectations can be extracted in...
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