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This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households … estimates indicate stronger gains among poorer households, suggesting that urban inflation up to 2005 in China was “pro …
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This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth (CIW) in three of the poorest countries in the world - Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda - all located in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Our first finding is that while income inequality is similar to...
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How much larger are the consumption possibilities of an urban US household with per capita expenditures of 1,000 US … dollars per month than a rural Indonesian household with per capita expenditures of 1,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah per month … purchasing power adjusted currency conversions. The Pritchett-Spivack Ratio (PSR) estimates the differences in household per …
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estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico …
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estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico …
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"Up until now, our knowledge on the consumption patterns of recipients of Unemployment Benefit II, the means tested basic security system for employable persons in Germany, is rather restricted. This comes somewhat as a surprise, since analyses of consumption are highly relevant for setting...
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consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed …
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consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated …
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consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed …
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consumption of calories, protein and fats over the period 1993–2004. This explanation is embedded in a standard demand theory …, robust demand functions are estimated for each of three nutrients viz. calories, protein and fats, separately for rural and … specified in the demand equation. In the context of calories, for example, it is plausible that part of the reduction in their …
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