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Essays on transaction costs and food diversity in developing countries

Steffen, Christoph - 2017

This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay presents a new operational concept of transaction costs that firstly allows assessing the magnitude and secondly recognizing the non homogeneity of food products. This is...

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A latent class analysis of the demand for food diversity in India

Steffen, Christoph; Yu, Xiaohua - 2018

In this paper we study the latent demand structure for food diversity in India using data from the 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey. We assume that consumers who have not yet attained calorie sufficiency favor calories over food diversity and once passing a threshold of subsistence substitute...

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Dynamic food demand in urban China

Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua; Herzfeld, Thomas - 2014

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete dynamic demand system - DLES-LA/DAIDS, which pushes forward the techniques of demand analysis. Design/methodology/approach – We employ a transitionary demand process and develop a...

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Matching food with mouths : a statistical explanation to the abnormal decline of per capita food consumption in rural China

Yu, Xiaohua; Abler, David Gerrard - 2015

This study provides an alternative explanation for the unusual apparent decline in food consumption in rural China after 2000. We find that it is mainly attributable to significant measurement errors in the Chinese Rural Household Survey and the calculation of per capita food consumption. In a...

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Climate change, risk and grain production in China

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua; Grün, Carola - 2011

production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors … in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate that grain production in south China might, at least in the short run … South China could entail an increase of grain output by 3.79 million tons or an economic benefit of around USD 798 million …

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Essays on economic returns to fertilizer, market structure of milk industry, and air pollution and food security in China

Sun, Feifei - 2018

Over the past four decades, China has made fruitful achievements in agricultural development, which attracted a great deal of attention within the academy. Meanwhile, Chinese agriculture has also undergone dramatic and continuing structural changes (Chen et al. 2009; Cao and Birchenall 2013),...

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Farm production diversity and dietary quality in smallholder farm households

Sibhatu, Kibrom Tadesse - 2016

Investments in agricultural modernization have resulted in remarkable progress in food production over the last century. As a consequence, the global number and the proportion of undernourished people has fallen significantly. Despite this progress, providing sufficient and nutritiously diverse...

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Dynamic food demand in China and international nutrition transition

Zhou, De - 2014

Economic growth followed by urbanization and food supply modernization in developing countries would lead to substantial changes in food demand. Global agri-food systems are undergoing a rapid transformation towards high-value and high-quality products. China would be a good and important...

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Essays on comparing poverty measures, gender differences in subjective well-being, food Insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan

Mahmood, Tahir - 2018

Diese Dissertation enthält vier Essays über die Messung und Determinanten von Armut, Gender Gap, Ernährungsunsicherheit und Unterernährung in Pakistan. Alle Arbeiten verwenden aktuelle Methoden und Ansätze der einschlägigen Literatur und erweitern teilweise die angewandte Literatur. Eine...

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The impact of food prices on household welfare and poverty in rural Tanzania

Mbegalo, Tukae; Yu, Xiaohua - 2016

The effects from the change in food prices on household welfare is a topical issue among policy makers and scholars in Tanzania. However, relatively little is known about the quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare and poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess...

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