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Egypt's food subsidy and rationing system : a description
Alderman, Harold; Braun, Joachim von; Sakr, Sakr A. - 1982
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000012291
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Dynamic food demand in urban China
Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua; Herzfeld, Thomas - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 7 (2015) 1, pp. 27-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378181
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A meta-analysis of food demand elasticities for China
Chen, Danhong; Abler, David Gerrard; Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 38 (2016) 1, pp. 50-72
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616394
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179284
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847902
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353357
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The 1. 5 Billion People Question : Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?
Alderman, Harold - 2017
in India: Stakeholders and Responsibilities" -- "2.3 Share of Households Purchasing Grain from the Public Distribution … Targeted Public Distribution System across States in India, 2011â 12" -- "2.5 Food Grain Production in India, 1950â 1991" -- "2 ….6 Procurement, Offtake, and Stocks of Rice and Wheat in India, 1975â 2010" -- "2.7 Changes in the Amount of Food Grain Subsidy and …
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Introduction to the special issue on "sustainable food consumption in China"
Yu, Xiaohua; Abler, David Gerrard; Shimokawa, Satoru - In: China economic review : an international journal 59 (2020), pp. 1-3
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596388
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The 1.5 Billion People Question : Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?
Alderman, Harold - 2017
Most of the people in low and middle-income countries covered by social protection receive assistance in the form of in-kind food. The origin of such support is rooted in countries' historical pursuit of three interconnected objectives, namely attaining self-sufficiency in food, managing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248640
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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 - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 63 (2016), pp. 36-43
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