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CHANGES IN INCOME AND WELFARE DISTRIBUTION IN URBAN CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD CONSUMPTION AND TRADE

Wang, Qingbin; Shi, Guanming; Zheng, Yi - 2000

While China's economic reform has brought about significant economic growth, there is a considerable debate about the … welfare distributions in urban China from 1981 to 1998 and discusses implications for China's food consumption patterns and … inequality in urban China has increased significantly since 1981, welfare comparisons based on generalized Lorenz curves suggest …

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INCOME ELASTICITY OF RICE DEMAND IN JAPAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS

Taniguchi, Kiyoshi; Chern, Wen S. - 2000

Researchers believe that rice in developed countries such as Japan became an inferior good a few decades ago. This study employs the flexible complete demand system for the recent cross-sectional data in Japan. Our results clearly show that rice in Japan is a normal good contrary to the...

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THE IMPACT OF HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION: CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE FROM WEST AFRICA

Penders, Christopher L.; Staatz, John - 2001

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different countries. The results are interpreted in the context of...

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TRACEABILITY AND IDENTITY PRESERVATION POLICY: PRIVATE INITIATIVES VS. PUBLIC INTERVENTION

Goldsmith, Peter D. - 2004

Firms within the food supply chain must decide what information to provide and how to provide it. This applies to collecting information from upstream suppliers as well as to supplying information to downstream customers. Components of this vertical information situation include farmer supplier...

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Characteristics and organization of the Fairtrade market in Brazil

Valentini, Elena - 2010

Fair Trade is defined as a set of socio-economic activities which are alternative to traditional and international trade. It began from the belief that the principal market's laws tend to cause serious damage to the South, and especially to the many workers devoted to 'agriculture'.The concept...

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Media Analysis on Volatile Markets’ Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior for the Agri-Food System

von Davier, Zazie; Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2010

The volatility of agricultural markets has increased remarkably in recent years. In spite of this, the way in which supply chain actors perceive market volatility has only rarely been analyzed. This paper seeks to close this research gap by presenting empirical findings about how the volatility...

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Horizontal and Vertical Networks for Innovation in the Traditional Food Sector

Gellynck, Xavier; Kuhne, Bianka - 2010

The locus of innovation is not the individual firm anymore but increasingly the network in which the firm is embedded. Hence, in this paper innovation is investigated in the broader context of networks and applied to the traditional food sector. Networking refers to a process of identifying and...

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Nutrition and health claims – call for and justification of governmental intervention from the consumers’ perspective

Hartmann, Monika; Lensch, Anne Katrin; Simons, Johannes; … - 2008

In December 2006 the Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 on the use of nutrition and health claims (NHCs) on foods was enacted in order to prevent consumer deception and to harmonise law within the EU. Against this background, this paper analyses the potential costs and benefits linked with NHCs and...

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Stated Preference Evaluation of Government Budgets

Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Cullen, Ross; Hughey, Kenneth F.D. - 2005

Stated preference approaches are widely used in non-market valuation. However, their potential uses extend far beyond valuation. In particular they can be used to assess efficiency of resource allocations and to design optimal resource allocations. Changes to the government budget were evaluated...

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Sustainable Relations in International Development Cooperation Projects: The Role of Human Resource Management and Organizational Climate

Zanasi, Cesare; Rota, Cosimo - 2010

The importance of organizational issues to assess the success of international development project has not beenfully considered yet. An analysis of the literature on the project success definition, focused on the successcriteria and success factors, was carried out by surveying the contribution...

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