Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition …We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption …

undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation … shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected counties rose while cotton production and …

or food fortification, these programs often do not consistently reach the poorest. This paper reports on the impact of a …

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes … dietary and physiologic outcomes. Our findings suggest that the correlations vary tremendously by age. We find that the food …

intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption …How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions … with higher per capita food production that year suffered higher famine mortality rates, a surprising reversal of a …