SPATIAL INEQUALITIES IN TERMS OF POVERTY AND FOOD SECURITY IN SELECTED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Keywords: Food prices, volatility, poverty, GTAP, households, wages, output, tradeJEL: D13, D58, I32Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Food Price Changes on PovertyIn the recent period of high and volatile food prices, there has been considerable c[r]

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income today than 20 years ago, and surely this is partly the result of restrictive trade policies,defined broadly to include inefficient ports and customs.Thus, one of the key developments in this current wave of globalization is that the way inwhich many <[r]

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Food security is the most crucial as it hampers the development of the people as well as the nation. The global community often uses the term ―food security‖ to describe not only the availability of food, but the ability to purchase food. Worldwide, 2.5 billion people derive their livelihoods from a[r]

This paper investigates corruption and tax evasion and
their firmlevel determinants across 25,000 firms in 57
countries, a large fraction of which are small and medium
enterprises in developing countries. Firms that pay more
bribes also evade more taxes. Corruption acts as a tax on
innovation, parti[r]

controversial—researchers typically carry out additional analysis to measure deprivations in human development, as a complement to income- orexpenditure-based measures of deprivation.All countries include food in the consumption aggregate, including foodpurchased <[r]

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regarding ecommerce as a viable business strategy, many doubt its application to
developing countries. Several papers examine individual case studies from advanced
developing countries but few have presented a systemic focus on the ec[r]

This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa.
First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial
sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial
Inclusion Indicators (Global Findex) database to
characterize adults in Africa that use formal and informal
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governance and anticorruption strategies that could achieve the objectives
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reduction. Yet, measurements of this relationship are still scarce and not always reliable.
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recent data. Results show that ru[r]

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country. It plays an important role to food security, income generation, job creation and
foreign currencies gains for Viet Nam (Bernabe 2008). In 2007, rice area accounts for 45%
of the area of total agricultu[r]

Trade preferences are a central issue in ongoing efforts to negotiate further
multilateral trade liberalization. “Less preferred” countries are increasingly concerned about the
discrimination they confront, while “more preferred” developing countries worry that WTObased
liberalization of trade will[r]

restructuring and to address the vulnerabilities built up since the global financial crisis. However, the accumulatedimbalances present a risk of a sharper-than-expected slowdown in investment, a significant tightening of creditconditions, and increased capital out[r]

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