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Research direcions in income distribution, nutrition, and the economics of food

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: En Series: Food Research Institute studies (USA) ; No. 16|No.2Publication details: Washington, DC (USA) : IFPRI, 1978Description: 45 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 82-708811
Summary: Extract: The number of potentially researchable questions about how income distribution, food production and consumption, and nutritional status work themselves out together is large. This paper attempts to chart the terrain and identify some interesting specific topics. The criteria of selection are that the problems be amenable to policy intervention, that they bear on the welfare of poor people in poor countries, and that they can be effectively studied by fairly small research teams with major specialization in economics
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Bibliography: p. 43-45

Extract: The number of potentially researchable questions about how income distribution, food production and consumption, and nutritional status work themselves out together is large. This paper attempts to chart the terrain and identify some interesting specific topics. The criteria of selection are that the problems be amenable to policy intervention, that they bear on the welfare of poor people in poor countries, and that they can be effectively studied by fairly small research teams with major specialization in economics

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International Food Policy Research Institute (USA)|COMOD

Efren Orozco

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