This study investigates the economic effects of external oil and food price shocks in thecontext of selected Asia and … accommodative of oil priceshocks. Limited impact of food prices can be recorded for India, Korea and Thailand in termsof industrial … output, inflation and interest rate. The major impact of food prices is that it helpsdepreciating real effective exchange …

, werden Food Balance Sheets (FBS) der Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) von 1961 bis 2003 analysiert. Obwohl die …

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different …

of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because … aggregate data from the National Accounts and Food Balance Sheets over the 1975-2006 period, and the results are used to assess …

-income households should be stochastically dominated by the distribution of expenditures on these same food items by other households …

Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …

caloric consumption. By specifically observing the practices in the fast food industry, this dissertation examines two factors … profits, choice and consumption. From the estimates, I produce a demand function for a fast food firm and run policy … taxation of fast food does decrease consumption, however, at a great expense to firms and consumers. Taxes harm consumers …