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This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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This study examines dynamics in poverty and food insufficiency using newly available longitudinal data from the 1993 … uses these data to characterize the incidence and dynamics of poverty and food problems for the entire U.S. population and … associated with transitions into and out of poverty and food insufficiency, and it analyzes the empirical results in the context …
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This report summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program. The Economic Research Service created the program in 1998 to stimulate new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and to broaden the participation of social...
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This report summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program. The Economic Research Service created the program in 1998 to stimulate new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and to broaden the participation of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806395
This report summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program. The Economic Research Service created the program in 1998 to stimulate new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and to broaden the participation of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005525888
The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICT-based MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of smallholder agriculture and subsequently their welfare. This study examines the welfare effects of one such...
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In seiner Festrede anlässlich der 61. ifo Jahresversammlung setzte sich Martin Zeil, Bayerischer Staatsminister für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie, mit der Haushaltskonsolidierung und der Steuerpolitik auseinander. Zu Beginn seines Vortrags betonte Zeil die Notwendigkeit,...
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In this paper, we address the question of optimal wage and income dispersion in a growing economy. If already in the two-persons-case we have to deal with the fact of different marginal products of labor, there are two solutions in principle. Either two different wages are paid (at unanimous...
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representing urban and rural households in the Renk County of South Sudan to assess the prevalence of poverty and inequality in the … study area. We used the cost of basic needs; to establish both food poverty line and Poverty line; estimated poverty … rural households respectively fall below our calculated poverty lines. The estimated Gini coefficient was 18% and 20% for …
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The prosperity achieved by developing countries in South East and East Asia as well as in many other parts of the developing world, would have been unthinkable fifty years ago. The significant rise in standard and quality of life of the citizens of these countries cannot be explained by their...
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