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Food deficits, food security and food aid : concepts and measurement

Gabbert, Silke; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 1998

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Food security, fertility differentials and land degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa : a dynamic framework

Winkler-Dworak, Maria - 2003

We study the impact of differential fertility levels for the food-insecure and foodsecure population on the long-run values of the population distribution and resources in a descriptive model, where the food security states are determined by a historically given food distribution and by the...

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Food deficits, food security and food aid : concepts and measurement

Gabbert, Silke (contributor); … - 2006

The concepts of food deficit, hunger, undernourishment and food security are discussed. Axioms and indices for the assessment of nutrition of individuals and groups are suggested. Furthermore a measure for food aid donor performance is developed and applied to a sample of bilateral and...

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Income Distribution and Economic Development : Insights from Machine Learning

Dutt, Pushan - 2020

We draw upon recent advances that combine causal inferences with machine learning, to show that poverty is the key income distribution measure that matters for development outcomes. In a predictive framework, we first show that LASSO chooses only the headcount measure of poverty from 37 income...

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A very brief approximation to what is the capability approach of Amartya Sen?

León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando; Moreno, Jose Luis - 2017

The capability approach developed by Sen represents a proposal for the evaluation of individual well-being and social development centered on people and away - but not exclusive - of materiality. In the present article describes the capability approach developed by Sen and examines the...

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The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) : model description for version 3

Robinson, Sherman; Mason-D'Croz, Daniel; Islam, Shahnila; … - 2015

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Agricultural drought impacts on crops sector and adaptation options in Mali : a macroeconomic computable general equilibrium analysis

Montaud, Jean-Marc - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 5, pp. 506-528

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Carbon taxes and agriculture : the benefit of a multilateral agreement

Jansson, Torbjörn; Malmström, Nils; Johansson, Helena; … - In: Climate policy 24 (2024) 1, pp. 13-25

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Chapter 43 Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition

Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2281-2341). 2007

This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population … is that positive technology shocks to agriculture have played a key role in igniting a transition from traditional to …

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Poverty in the Russian Federation

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective...

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