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Determinants of Food Insecurity among Households in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia
Gebre, Girma Gezimu - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 10 (2012) 2, pp. 159-173
, the recent food and financial crises have highlighted the problem of urban food insecurity in developing countries. Hence …, the overall objective of this study was to examine the determinants of food insecurity among urban households in Addis …Even though there is long-held belief that urban populations are better off, or even favoured than rural populations …
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Immigration and Inequality
Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21
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Poverty estimates in India: Old and new methods, 2004-05
Pathak, Durgesh C.; Mishra, Srijit - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2011
rounds acting as a constraint on comparisons, and using urban poverty ration of the old method as a starting point to decide … method, are used to calculate incidence, depth (intensity) and severity (inequality among poor) estimates of poverty for …
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural-urban …
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How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain?
Spears, Dean - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2012
Physical height is an important economic variable re ecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa...
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How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain?
Spears, Dean - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
Physical height is an important economic variable re ecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150250
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How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain?
Spears, Dean - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2012
Physical height is an important economic variable re ecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701334
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Is there an Environmental Urban Kuznets Curve? The case of polluting emissions due to daily mobility in 37 cities. (In French)
MEUNIE, André; POUYANNE, Guillaume - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2007
consider such a question as a pertinent one. This article aims at analyzing the Urban EKC (UEKC) hypothesis. It tests it with a …: thus we control for the influence of urban size. Second, we only take in account pollutants due to a unique source, which … analysis to show that the influence of income may in fact reflect the influence of both urban form and consumers’ habits on …
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Is there an Environmental Urban Kuznets Curve? The case of polluting emissions due to daily mobility in 37 cities. (In French)
MEUNIE, André; POUYANNE, Guillaume - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2007
consider such a question as a pertinent one. This article aims at analyzing the Urban EKC (UEKC) hypothesis. It tests it with a …: thus we control for the influence of urban size. Second, we only take in account pollutants due to a unique source, which … analysis to show that the influence of income may in fact reflect the influence of both urban form and consumers’ habits on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395023
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DEMAND FOR FOOD QUANTITY AND QUALITY IN CHINA
Gale Jr., H. Frederick; Huang, Kuo S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
beverage products. Food expenditures and incomes have grown much more slowly for rural and low-income urban households. … safety in food. Food expenditures grow faster than quantities purchased as income rises, suggesting that consumers with … income elasticity of demand for quantity of most foods is near zero. China’s food market is becoming segmented. The demand …
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