"The world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The influence of the private sector in the world food system,...

"The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries, about inflation, and—in some countries—about civil unrest. Real prices are still below their mid-1970s peak, but they...

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This paper examines the short-run and long-run neutrality of money using methodology suggested by King and Watson (1997) on quarterly data from South Korea and Taiwan (King and Watson (1997), Testing Long-Run Neutrality, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 83(3), 69-103). A body...

Can extending social welfare expenditures promote economic growth? This issue has been discussed extensively, with some research pointing to net benefits while others find a net negative impact. Insight can be gained by careful analysis of several sub-questions. For example, for two countries...

English Abstract: The authors review the availability and allocation of commercial credit in China, the investment options presented to savers and the funding options available to Chinese banks. They highlight the markets intrinsic deficiencies, vast externalities and tremendous potentials for...

The English version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3486211" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3486211.Chinese Abstract:...

The English version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2949307' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2949307.Chinese Abstract:...

This paper investigates whether distributional effect arising from the impact of monetary policy on bank credits will be different when monetary policy is asymmetric. Methodologically, we use a set of high frequency panel data for Taiwan commercial banks and adopt Arellano and Bond's (1991)...