, to end dependence on food aid, and to allow poor people to benefit from economic growth. It also assesses the challenges …

This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies … - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant …

are presented here. It is shown that the relationship between expected dependency rates and consumption growth depends on … two parameters: the demographically varying committed consumption and the intertemporal elasticity of substitution. Thus …, the expected path of demographic variables can provide information on the consumers’ willingness to smooth consumption …

consumption patterns. Data for six industrialized countries are used to estimate a simple model incorporating liquidity …