This study is the first to establish a chronology of food crises in Germany from the sixteenth century to their disappearance in the late 1860s based on a standard methodology to detect cycles in commodity prices. To this end, we develop an aggregate rye price series, deflate it by a consumer...

Households differ in their consumption baskets and inflation rates along the wealth and income distribution. We use German data to show that subsistence consumption is a main driver of these differences: the share of subsistence consumption in overall consumption is significantly higher for...

This joint World Bank and UNHCR report is developed in response to the United Nation (UN) omnibus resolution to coordinate an effort to measure the impact arising from hosting, protecting and assisting refugees. Following this resolution UNHCR, with assistance from the World Bank, led a...

This research examines the heterogeneous impact of out-migration on the informal employment within the framework of rural transformation in Nepal. Employing a multinomial Probit model with instrumental variables, we analyze the influence of household-level migration on the informal employment...

The research evaluated the levels to which subsistence yam farmers operationalized indigenous knowledge management during the COVID-19 period. A descriptive survey approach was employed. The research comprised 120 randomly selected peasant yam farmers. Means, t-test, standard deviation, and...

The current study sought to assess the effect of smallholder crop commercialization on household nutrition security and poverty status. Recent government efforts have gone beyond investing in agricultural production, thereby establishing markets for smallholder farmers in order to commercialize...

Suppose consumers value products solely because they purvey `characteristics', ζ, which composed with time are sources of utility. Necessarily, there exists a `consumption technology (CT)', and `innovation technology (IT)' serves for the satisfaction of CT. This study arrives at an equilibrium...

This paper presents a model where misallocation in the agricultural factors of production is caused by transportation costs to and from local markets, which result in an inefficiently large share of inputs operated by less productive subsistence farmers. The model derives some testable...

This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...

This study constructs a two-sector two-class economic growth model to analyze an economy described in Marx's Capital , where only the capitalist owns the means of production and maximizes the surplus value, while the worker provides labor in exchange for the minimum subsistence wage. Unlimited...

We evaluate the aggregate effects of expansions of credit supply in environments where subsistence self-employment is prevalent. We extend a standard macro development model to include unemployment risk, which becomes a key driver of selection into self-employment. The model is consistent with...

A Market Void: Are We Missing a Market Actor? Insights From JUNTOS’s Action-Research Case -- Inclusive Marketing: Fostering Sustainable Wellbeing in Subsistence Communities -- Marketplace Literacy and Sustainable Consumption at The Base of The Pyramid (Bop) -- Bridging Economic, Social, And...

The entrepreneurship of subsistence markets (subsistence entrepreneurship) has received attention from researchers for its importance in solving poverty problems, especially in developing countries. The effects of climate change in these countries are leading to the need to seek alternative...

Abstract Vulnerabilities in subsistence marketplaces arise from the multifaceted deprivation that characterizes poverty. Associated with low income is low literacy, leading to vulnerabilities in terms of thinking, feeling, and coping. We review literature on vulnerability and on subsistence...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the different concepts of innovation in the subsistence marketplace from top-down and bottom-up approaches. This study analyzes the literature on the theme and identified research gaps by constructing a framework based on approaches and innovation...