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What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?
Heston, Alan - 2008
Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …
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动荡局势下的中国粮食安全分析及应对: 保持冷静, 继续维护贸易畅通
Kuhn, Lena; Jaghdani, Tinoush Jamali; Prehn, Sören; … - 2022
国际农产品贸易对于维护全球粮食安全起着关键的作用。 一方面， 国际贸易使全球的消费者得以获取多样性的食物（Krivonos 和 Kuhn， 2019）， 另一方面， 贸易也可以通过食品分配机制， 充分利...
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The political economy of food pricing policy in China
Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun; Rozelle, Scott - 2013
The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China's unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets, the government's reaction to the crisis was...
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The political economy of food price policy: Country case study of Mozambique
Nhate, Virgulino; Massingarela, Claudio; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2013
The 2007-09 price shocks affected in particular the prices of food commodities and fuel. As a consequence, Mozambique experienced reduced exports, more expensive imports and increased food and oil prices, contributing to the stagnant poverty rates registered in 2008/9. Our analysis finds, first,...
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The political economy of food price: The case of Ethiopia
Admassie, Assefa - 2013
Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The Ethiopian government released emergency food grain reserves, imported and distributed wheat at subsidized price, banned the export of staple cereals, and removed value added and...
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Food price pass-through in the euro area The role of asymmetries and non-linearities
Ferrucci, Gianluigi; Jiménez-Rodríguez, Rebeca; … - 2010
In this paper we analyse the pass-through of a commodity price shock along the food price chain in the euro area. Unlike the existing literature, which mainly focuses on food commodity prices quoted in international markets, we use a novel database that accounts for the role of the Common...
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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a … higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the … inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24 …
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Preiserhöhungen bei Molkereiprodukten und Backwaren: nur geringer Einfluss auf die Lebenshaltungskosten
Dreger, Christian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 32, pp. 513-515
aktuellen Preisentwicklungen bei einer Reihe von Lebensmitteln haben indes nur geringe Auswirkungen auf die Inflation, und auch …
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The political economy of food price policy: The case study of India
Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok - 2013
, led to rising food prices in India since mid-2009. Food price inflation has hovered between 8-12 per cent per annum since … of food inflation.This is a cause for concern given that India continues to face food security challenges given the large …India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to …
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Internationale Erdgaspreise: Marktsegmentierung und Transaktionskosten führen zu dauerhafter Preisdivergenz
Neumann, Anne; Ponce, Micaela; von Hirschhausen, Christian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 47, pp. 26-33
Erdgas spielt als Brücken-Energieträger beim Umbau hin zu CO2-ärmeren Energiesystemen in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit eine wichtige Rolle. In diesem Zusammenhang ist die Entwicklung der Erdgaspreise von großer Bedeutung, insbesondere im Verhältnis zum Konkurrenzrohstoff Kohle. Bis vor...
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