This paper uses both linear and nonlinear causality tests to examine the causal relationships between changes in commodity prices and U.S. inflation. Prior to the Great Moderation, there is evidence that changes in commodity price indices linearly lead inflation. The stability of the causal...

This paper examines factors affecting calorie gap by accounting for the risk of calorie inadequacy or excess occurring at the tails of nutrient and food intakes. Non-linear estimations are conducted to further account for rural-urban differences in more and less developed states. Eliminating...

Increasing integration of the Asian Tigers with the world economy through trade has exposed their income and trade to greater uncertainty and volatility. This paper models uncertainty in trade and income and re-examines the stability of the trade-growth nexus for Japan and the Asian Tigers in a...

The influence of socio-economic factors and social affiliation on living standards is shown to be contingent on the living standard status of the household. This new result casts doubt on studies that use conditional mean regression analysis and the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition analysis to...

Purpose – This paper seeks to revisit the highly debated trade-growth hypothesis by considering the effects of trade and output volatility on the relationship between trade and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – The relationship is modeled by testing for the existence of output...

M<sc>ahadevan</sc> R. and S<sc>uardi</sc> S. Regional differences pose challenges for food security policy: a case study of India, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper examines factors affecting the calorie gap by considering the risk of calorie inadequacy or excess at the tails of food intakes. Non-linear estimations...

While Malaysia is one of the few economies which has successfully enjoyed economic growth with equity from 1970 to 1990, recent studies suggest that income inequality rose in the 1990s. This paper re-examines these arguments in the light of Malaysia’s economic development and the policies...

In this paper, we consider an extension of the commonly used poverty gap measure that may be used to address he question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by...

This article examines the issue of trade reforms confronting many African Caribbean and Pacific countries such as Fiji, which are set to lose their European Union sugar price subsidy at the end of 2007. It was found that attempts to offset the adverse impacts of the subsidy removal by targeting...

This paper revisits the highly debated export-led growth hypothesis in a number of different ways using Singapore as a case study. First, the hypothesis is tested in terms of labor and total factor productivity growth and this provides a means of transmission via which exports can affect or be...