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South Africa has signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and placed poverty and inequality reduction at the forefront of its National Development Plan. This study links a nonparametric income distribution (micro) simulation model and an economywide general equilibrium (macro) model to...

Using an exclusive data set from Indonesia in 2018-2020, this study aims to prove whether there is a relationship between the allocation of village funds and the level of hunger in the community. In particular, this study tries to find out whether the Village Fund allocation policy has an effect...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Producers -- Chapter 3. Consumers -- Chapter 4. Dealing with Externalities -- Chapter 5. Food Policies and Prices -- Chapter 6. Food Trade -- Chapter 7. Databases and Their Potential -- Chapter 8. Research Approaches -- Chapter 9. Concluding remark.