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Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
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Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2004. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated for nine food commodities. Significant own and...
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Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640540
The objective of this analysis is mainly to construct an intuitive measure of the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India -a nation-wide poverty alleviation programme which was introduced in 2005. The focus is on excess demand at the district level. Some...
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Despite accelerated growth there is pervasive hunger, child undernutrition and mortality. Our analysis focuses on their determinants. Raising living standards alone will not reduce hunger and undernutrition. Reduction of rural/urban disparities, income inequality, consumer price stabilisation,...
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Recent literature points towards the role of speculators in exaggerating the rally in food prices, over and above that … the increasing food prices if it is accompanied by hoarding. With this background, the issues that the present chapter … deals with are: (i) assessing the impact of indices such as S&P500, and MSCI on commodity prices; and (ii) tracing the …
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. Using a standard demand framework, our resolution is different. The important role of food prices in inducing changes in …, stagnation of incomes in rural areas over the period 1993–2004 suggests that prices had a decisive role in lowering calorie … arguably linked to improvements in health and lower activity levels. Policy interventions designed to stabilise food prices and …
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framework, with food prices and expenditure (as a proxy for income) cast in a pivotal role. Based on different experiments …
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