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The impact of assistance on poverty and food security in a fragile and protracted-crisis context : the case of West Bank and Gaza Strip
Romanoa, Donato; Stefania, Gianluca; Rocchia, Benedetto; … - In: Bio-based and applied economics 8 (2019) 1, pp. 21-61
This paper assesses the impact of assistance on the wellbeing of Palestinian households. The impact evaluation analysis uses a difference-in-difference approach for the treatment of sample selection bias. The paper uses data from the 2013 and 2014 rounds of the Palestinian Socio-Economic and...
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Vulnerability and resilience to food and nutrition insecurity : a review of the literature towards a unified framework
Montalbano, Pierluigi; Romano, Donato - In: Bio-based and applied economics 11 (2022) 4, pp. 303-322
Current approaches to measuring food and nutrition security (FNS) mainly consider past access to food, while assessing vulnerability and resilience to food insecurity requires a dynamic setting and sound predictive models, conditional to the entire set of food-related multiple-scale shocks and...
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Social dimension of inclusive growth in ECOWAS : implication for poverty reduction
Anu, Toriola K.; Emmanuel, Goerge O.; Felix, Ajayi O. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 13 (2022) 1, pp. 265-288
comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health … outcomes do not show significant effect on poverty. Although, the estimates of inequality, health and education outcomes are …
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Macroeconomic and distributional impacts of jatropha based biodiesel in Mali
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Coulibaly, Massaoly; Savard, Luc; … - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/63, pp. 1-22
existing agriculture land is used for jatropha cultivation. The distributional results are slightly different. We find that …
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Argentina : feeding on food crisis?
Ozyigit, Ahmet; Eminer, Fehiman - 2011
inflation ; global food crisis ; cointegration ; vector error correction ; agriculture-led growth ; poverty reduction. …-run relationship between food price inflation and poverty reduction in Argentina. Results from the cointegration tests reveal that … economic growth, food price inflation and poverty reduction exhibit a long-run relationship. The results from the VECM support …
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Households' food insecurity in the V4 countries : microeconometric analysis
Dudek, Hanna - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 377-392
head, such as educational attainment, gender, age, health and status of economic activity. Moreover, the findings strongly …
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Is the 'Cost of Enough Food' Lower in Rural Areas?
Nord, Mark; Leibtag, Ephraim - In: The Review of Regional Studies 35 (2005) 3, pp. 291-310
We develop and assess two inter-area cost-of-enough-food indices using nationally representative data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplements on how much households say they would need to spend to just meet their food needs. We calculate the indices for 470 geographic areas...
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Measuring food insecurity : Food Affordability Index as a measure of territorial inequalities
Bernaschi, Daniela; Marino, Davide; Felici, Francesca - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 3, pp. 79-91
The devastating economic and social impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine has exacerbated poverty and food insecurity, making it harder for people to access food. Based on a multidimensional understanding of food insecurity, this study focuses on one of the most challenging dimensions for...
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Estimating procedure for the macronutrients latent prices in food security models
Milena N. Agostinelli M. - In: Economía 32 (2007) 24, pp. 129-146
A model that allows the estimation of the latent prices of animal proteins, vegetal proteins, fats and carbohydrates that come from staple food is developed. This research opens a path for developing food security models that take into account not only the calories intake but the nutritional...
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Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh: Progress and Determinants
Hossain, Mahabub; Naher, Firdousi; Shahabuddin, Quazi - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 2 (2005) 2, pp. 103-132
For Bangladesh food security was synonymous with achieving self-sufficiency in rice production and stabilization in rice prices. The country has made good progress in increasing rice production through technological progress, facilitated by private sector investment in small scale irrigation....
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