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  • Indian Agriculture and Food Security: Current Concerns and Lessons

    Shabd S. Acharya
    Since its independence in 1947, India has aimed its agricultural development policies at reducing hunger, food insecurity, and poverty. The new strategy of agricultural development launched in the mid-1960s was successful in improving macro (national) food security in a reasonably short period of...
    Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010)

  • The Role of Labor Markets and Human Capital in Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asia and Africa

    Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo, and Takashi Yamano
    Using long-term panel data sets of rural households in the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Tamil Nadu (India), a short-term panel data set in Mozambique, and cross-section data sets in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia, the roles of labor markets in the long-term process of poverty reduction in...
    Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010)

  • Cereal Price Transmission in Several Large Asian Countries during the Global Food Crisis

    David Dawe
    World cereal prices have been increasing substantially since 2003. Until 2008, the Asian countries examined in this paper (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) had generally been able to contain domestic price increases by using trade policies and taking...
    Volume 6 Issue No. 1 (June 2009)

  • Notes | Effects of Small Sustainable Land Use Systems in Developing Countries

    Jana Schindler and Henry Wüstemann
    Especially when viewed in the context of the ongoing market liberalization, small land use systems are often considered to be inefficient in terms of commodity production because further externalities, which might also be welfare-relevant, are not sufficiently accounted for. The assessment of all...
    Volume 4 Issue No. 2 (December 2007)

  • Spatial Integration of the Rice Market: Empirical Evidence from Mid-west and Far-west Nepal, and the Nepalese-Indian Border

    Issa Sanogo
    This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are poorly integrated with the regional market of Nepalgunj....
    Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006)

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