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The aim of this paper is to assess the welfare effects of food price changes on urban households' poverty and …, based on the poverty line, 41% of urban households were observed to be below the poverty line and the number of poor … vulnerability. This is achieved by using Hicksian price Compensating Variation (CV) and compensated price elasticities, based on …
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poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in rural Tanzania, by …The effects from the change in food prices on household welfare is a topical issue among policy makers and scholars in … Tanzania. However, relatively little is known about the quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare and …
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consumption, dietary diversity, and economic welfare effects of food price spikes among households in Nigeria. Using the 2012 …/2013 and 2015/2016 Household Survey Panel Data, the linear individual (fixed) effects models were estimated while controlling … vegetables exert heterogeneous influence. Female headed households advance calorie consumption and dietary variety. Findings …
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Dramatic food price spikes in recent years have stimulated debate on the welfare implications of food price risk. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa rose to a record 265 million in 2009. There is a...
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countries under a three-pillar policy framework - supporting consumption, boosting production and regulating/managing food …
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and rural-urban location. In this paper, we focus on poor households vs. non-poor households using two definitions of …Evidence suggests that household responses to price and income changes are significantly sensitive across income levels … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …
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