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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty [FAST version]

Wilson, Edgar James - 2009

A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...

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FIRMS’ RESPONSES TO NUTRITIONAL POLICIES

Duvaleix-Treguer, S.; Hammoudi, H.; Rouached, L.; … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of nutritional policies on the behavior of firms, particularly in terms of food quality and prices, and to assess the potential impacts of such policies from a public health point of view. We determine how new products that are nutritionally...

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Nachfrageanalyse, Economies of Scale und Preisdifferenzierung im deutschen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel

Silke Maria Schmitz - 2007

sieben aggregierter Nah-rungsmittelgruppen und den logarithmierten Ausgaben für Nahrungsmittel. Die daraus resul … et al. (1997) bezieht neben den loga-rithmierten auch die quadrierten logarithmierten Ausgaben für Nahrungsmittel in die … zwischen der Haushaltsgröße und dem Ausgabenanteil für Nahrungsmittel, unter konstanten Pro-Kopf-Gesamtausgaben, in den …

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Klimaschutz und Ernährungssicherheit : ein ordnungspolitischer Ansatz

Presse, André; Häußner, Ludwig Paul; Köke, Sonja - 2009

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Weather Risk and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India

Ito, Takahiro; Kurosaki, Takashi - 2006

As one of the measures to smooth income, this paper focuses on the diversification of labor allocation across activities. A key feature of this paper is that it pays particular attention to differences in the covariance between weather risk and agricultural wages and between weather risk and...

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The Niger Food Crisis: Causes and Implications for Research and Development from an Integrated Agricultural Economics Perspective

Abele, Steffen; Twine, Edgar - 2006

During the 2004 food crisis in Niger, the weakness of the main production system, millet, to produce enough food to sustain short term crises, has been revealed. Questions arise how the Nigerian smallholder systems can be assisted by research and development policies to intensify production and...

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Trade Policy Reforms in the Cereals Sector of the SADC Region: Implications on Food Security

Mutambatsere, Emelly - 2006

This study evaluates the welfare implications of tariff reforms in the cereals sector of the SADC region. Applying the global simulation model (GSIM), a multi-country partial equilibrium model, to the cereals industries of thirteen SADC countries, the study computes price and welfare effects of...

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An Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Mali’s Maize Subsector

Diallo, Amadou Sekou - 2011

In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...

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Rice Trade Policies and Their Implications for Food Security

Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J. - 2011

There is a strong linkage between the behavior of the rice market and the state of food security inmany regions around the world, particularly in Asia, as made evident in the 2007-08 commoditycrisis. Rice is a staple for the majority of the population in Asia, where roughly 60% of the close...

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Staple food prices in Kenya

Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Njukia, Stephen - 2010

Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”,Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)

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