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Most simulated micro-founded macro models use solely consumer-demand aggregates in order to estimate deep economy-wide preference parameters, which are useful for policy evaluation. The underlying demand-aggregation properties that this approach requires, should be easy to empirically disprove:...
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Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
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Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …
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Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been bedeviled by controversies. A major controversy is whether...
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Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086396
, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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In this paper we study the latent demand structure for food diversity in India using data from the 2012 Consumer …
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We quantify the impacts on consumption expenditure and the patterns following India's initial sudden lockdown in …
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