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Are remittances and foreign aid a hedge against food price shocks in developing countries?
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Ntsama Etoundi, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 54 (2014), pp. 81-98
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The impact of food price shocks on poverty and vulnerability of urban households in Iran
Layani, Ghasem; Bakhshoodeh, Mohammad; Aghabeygi, Mona; … - In: Bio-based and applied economics 9 (2020) 1, pp. 109-125
vulnerability. This is achieved by using Hicksian price Compensating Variation (CV) and compensated price elasticities, based on …
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Remittances and household behavior in the Philippines
Ang, Alvin P.; Sugiyarto, Guntur; Jha, Shikha - 2010
As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … domestic product in 2008. Remittances have become the single most important source of foreign exchange to the economy and a … role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic …
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Nexus between remittance and household consumption : Fresh evidence from symmetric or asymmetric investigation
Qamruzzaman, Md.; Wei, Jianguo - In: Journal of economic development 45 (2020) 3, pp. 1-27
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Consumption modelling considering different socio-economic household types
Drosdowski, Thomas; Stöver, Britta; Wolter, Marc Ingo - 2015
Private households constitute one of the main economic sectors. The underlying house-hold structure determines income and consumption aggregates. For example, changes in the population composition induced by demographic change or shifts in the income structure through redistributional policy...
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Household external finance and consumption
Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - 2008
This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the spread paid by risky borrowers in the mortgage market....
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Do foreign asset holdings affect household consumption?
McLoughlin, Cameron - 2010
Scant attention has been paid in the literature concerning 'consumption wealth effects' to asset heterogeneity in terms of foreign and domestic asset holdings. Through extending the approach of Lettau and Ludvigson (2004).and Nitschka (2007), this study uncovers that whilst households tend to...
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Chinese household consumption : how much is enough?
Guo, Qingwang - In: China finance and economic review : CFER 3 (2015), pp. 1-8
Background: As per currently accepted methodology of national economic accounting, China's household consumption rate is considered relatively low. This paper discusses the evolvement of China’s consumption over time. Methods: Employing two different measures of consumption, I compare the...
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Consumption based estimates of urban Chinese growth
Chamon, Marcos; Carvalho Filho, Irineu de - In: China economic review : an international journal 29 (2014), pp. 126-137
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Who faces higher prices? : an empirical analysis based on Japanese homescan data
Abe, Naohito; Shiotani, Kyosuke - In: Asian economic policy review : AEPR 9 (2014) 1, pp. 94-115
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