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The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor
Zezza, Alberto; Davis, Benjamin; Azzarri, Carlo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer households and households with limited asset endowments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880139
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La desigualdad y la pobreza como desafios para el desarrollo territorial rural
Berdegue, Julio; Schejtman, Alexander - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2008) 218
evolution of rural poverty and inequality in Latin America since the early 1980's. The authors conclude that after 20 years of … changes both in poverty rates and in the distribution of income. The authors discuss the territorial dimension of inequality … experienced an improvement (relative to the national average changes) in income, income distribution, and poverty rates. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882588
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Nonfarm Employment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Ghana: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis
Owusu, Victor; Abdulai, Awudu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This article investigates the impact of nonfarm employment on farm household income and way out of poverty, using farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913354
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Asymmetric Response of Nutrient Intakes to Cereal Price Changes among the Poor in China: Implications for the Effect of Cereal Price Subsidies on the Poor’s Nutrient Intakes
Shimokawa, Satoru - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Previous studies commonly assume that the effects of introducing and ending cereal price subsidies on the poor’s nutrient intakes are symmetric. We question the assumption of symmetry and show that the poor’s nutrient intakes respond asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913497
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Policy impacts under alternative land market regimes in rural China
Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
. At the village level, a land market does not influence the poverty outcome of the reform but reduces its inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913844
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Rural Employment and Income Effects of a Jatropha Plantation in Madagascar
Grass, Martin; Zeller, Manfred - In: Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 50
poverty alleviation using socio-economic characteristics of rural Malagasy households. We analyse data from 336 randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914245
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The Long and Short Run Impacts of Food and Energy Price Shocks: Evidence from Nigeria
Aye, Goodness C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
poverty impacts of rising food and energy prices under a number of scenarios. In general, it was observed that rising food and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915510
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WAS CHINA’S RATE OF POVERTY REDUCTION EVEN FASTER THAN ROUTINELY ASSUMED? ACCOUNTING FOR THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
Deininger, Klaus W.; Giles, John; Jin, Songqing; Wang, Hui - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916019
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Ex-Post Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Rural Ethiopia
Zeng, Di; Alwang, Jeffrey; Norton, George; Shiferaw, Bekele - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … effects to identify the counterfactual income distribution without improved maize arieties. Poverty impacts are estimated as … the differences in poverty indices computed using observed and counterfactual income distributions. Improved maize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916306
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Is poverty worth fighting wars over?
Partridge, Mark D. - In: Choices 29 (2014) 2
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936916