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Lunch with Pigou: Externalities and the “Hidden†Cost of Food
Lusk, Jayson L. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42 (2013) 3
Social critics have taken aim at modern production agriculture using a common theme: many food, health, and environmental problems are explained by corporate farms, agribusinesses, and fast-food restaurants failing to account for the full costs of their actions. How accurate is this diagnosis?...
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Food Demand, Food Prices and Welfare Analysis utilizing EASI model
Magaña-Lemus, David; Ishdorj, Ariun; Rosson, C. Parr III - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The impacts of rising food prices on poverty and welfare of Mexican households are examined by using a linearized version of the Exact Affine Stone Index (EASI) demand system. The distribution of monetary measures of welfare effects from food price changes is estimated as well as equivalence...
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The Food versus Fuel Debate: Implications for Consumers
Harrison, R. Wes - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 02
The effects of biofuel production on commodity prices and their transmission to retail food prices are discussed. Factors driving higher commodity prices are tight global supplies and increased demand of corn ethanol in the short term. Evidence suggests that higher corn prices contribute to food...
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The relationship between output and unemployment in Scotland: A regional analysis
Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Leat, Philip M.K.; Renwick, Alan W. - Land Economy and Environment Group, Scotland's Rural College - 2012
and regional economics. In this paper we estimate such a relationship for Scotland and at the Nomenclature of Territorial …: first, to test whether such a relationship exists in Scotland and how different these estimates are from those produced for … areas. Results indicate that the Okun’s coefficient for Scotland is slightly higher than the one computed for the UK (1 …
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The relationship between output and unemployment in Scotland: A regional analysis
Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Leat, Philip M.K.; Renwick, Alan W. - Land Economy and Environment Group, Scotland's Rural College - 2012
and regional economics. In this paper we estimate such a relationship for Scotland and at the Nomenclature of Territorial …: first, to test whether such a relationship exists in Scotland and how different these estimates are from those produced for … areas. Results indicate that the Okun’s coefficient for Scotland is slightly higher than the one computed for the UK (1 …
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Is the American Supermarket Really Super?
Padberg, Daniel I. - 1973
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Welfare or Growth? Sri Lanka's Problem in Peasant Agriculture
Edirisinghe, Neville - 1979
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Food, Population, and Employment: The Malthusian Prospect Two Centuries Later
Poleman, Thomas T. - 1988
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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link
Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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