Russia, China, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. …

explored in their relationship with FDI. This study seeks to fill in these gaps by using the specific cases of Argentina and … Brazil. …

his only merit, however. From Chile to Brazil, from Mexico to Argentina, he passed on his passion for the possible to more …

This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households … substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school – especially girls – and …

This paper deals with the question of the trade-offs between bio-fuels, fossil-fuels, and food. To do so an analysis is … results shows that in general food puts a greater stress over the economies than energy does, and mainly in the developing … where it is possible to have an expansion of bio-fuel production without compromising the production of food and without …

Food programs are large and expensive components of social safety nets in developing countries. For agricultural … households, hunger is more acute in annual lean seasons, but food policies typically do not adapt to seasonality. There is … credit and saving constraints generate seasonality, and present results from a randomized experiment of food storage and food …

This paper deals with the question of the trade-offs between bio-fuels, fossil-fuels, and food. To do so an analysis is … results shows that in general food puts a greater stress over the economies than energy does, and mainly in the developing … where it is possible to have an expansion of bio-fuel production without compromising the production of food and without …

Local brands are rapidly emerging in food retail in Asia. However, it is not well understood what impact they have in … domestic food markets. In a detailed case study of makhana in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, we see the fast …

since 2008 with extremely high fluctuations. The index of food has been growing relative to the core CPI and did not reach … observed trends and periodicity allow predicting the evolution of energy, food, and housing at a horizon of twenty five and … the food price index will be rising another five to ten years. The secular fall in energy and housing prices may induce a …