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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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Digitalisation and Modernity of Capital Stock in Europe

Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 5, pp. 260-266

Digitalisation has become one of the core concepts in European modernisation. Whileinvestment in computer hardware, telecommunications equipment, software and databaseshas increased over the years, the degree of modernity of the overall capital stock has not.This paper examines whether there is...

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Ein nutzungskostenbasierter Ansatz zur Messung des Faktors Kapital in aggregierten Produktionsfunktionen

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2012

der aggregierte Kapitaleinsatz der Unternehmen erkennbar stärker zu als der amtlich ausgewiesene Kapitalstock. In der …

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A user cost approach to capital measurement in aggregate production functions

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2012

der aggregierte Kapitaleinsatz der Unternehmen erkennbar stärker zu als der amtlich ausgewiesene Kapitalstock. In der …

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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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Cheap as chips: Is a healthy diet affordable?

Snowdon, Christopher - 2017

It is widely believed that healthy eating is relatively expensive whereas 'junk food' is relatively cheap. This has led to an assumption that poor diets and obesity are directly caused by economic deprivation. Some studies have compared the price-per-calorie of various types of food. The...

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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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