Purpose – Most demand studies have concentrated on the estimation of expenditure elasticities for single commodity at a … purpose of this paper is to simultaneously estimate the demand equations for a number of food items and to estimate cross-price … – Expenditure elasticities show that gaari and palm oil were inferior food items while others could be classified as normal. Own-price …

outputs from economic impact models, specifically those generated by IMPLAN. Design/methodology/approach – Primary expenditure …

This article, making standard assumptions, tests the effect that cross price elasticity of demand has on consumer …

Analyses the impact of concessional sales of rice under public food distribution schemes on the open market demand and …

economy, over the sample period, observes an increase in price and interest rate elasticities of the demand for different …Applies a modified Keynesian money demand function to household money demand in Poland from 1969 to 1993. Co …‐integration between the demand for broad money, income and shortage, despite the regime shifts during the 1980s and full liberalization of …

uneven growth process. Slow productivity growth sectors, he argues, could experience increased real costs and, unless demand … allows explicitly both for demand, for examination of the sources of productivity growth, and for substitution between … that with uneven growth the relative price of the non‐progressive sector’s output will rise if that good is normal.  …

/methodology/approach – To verify the problem of global food crisis, the paper mainly utilizes food price index of UN Food and Agriculture …-economic systems, and political structures. The challenges in achieving food security are to reduce poverty, increase food security … break the cycle of poverty. Originality/value – The paper presents comprehensive research work in the field of global food …

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to construct a poverty profile for Sri Lanka, and examine the micro …-level determinants and correlates of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the latest Sri Lanka Integrated Survey … commissioned by the World Bank. The unconditional poverty profile was constructed using three different poverty measures (poverty …