Stanislav Kolenikov, Gustavo Ángeles
The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA) in the area of welfare studies. This paper explores the ways discrete data can be incorporated into PCA. The effects of discreteness of the observed variables on the PCA a...
Martin Ravallion
Abstract A model of spatial price differentials for a tradable good is proposed which avoids the inferential dangers of received methods using static price correlations. The proposed method also extracts more information on the causes of price differentials from the same data. The method is illustra...
Ghose Bishwajit
Abstract Reducing hunger and malnutrition and improving food security have come to the forefront of global political agenda. In the wake of recent spells of food price hike, national and supranational development organizations and governments have begun to express serious concerns about the world's ...
Mark M. Pitt
T HE dietary choice of households near subsistence levels of nutrient intake is one of obvious policy importance. In many countries, such as Bangladesh, national goals are set in terms of nutritional intake and there is heavy intervention in the markets for foods. However, little is known about the ...
Ashok Gulati, Nicholas Minot, Cecília Delgado, Siddheswar Bora
This chapter describes the growth of high-value agriculture, its direct implications for the restructuring of the agricultural supply chains (including the emergence of contract farming and other forms of vertical coordination) and its indirect implications for the role of small farmers. The chapter...
Sonia Akter, Syed Abul Basher
Madan M. Dey, Yolanda T. Garcia, Kumar Praduman, Somying Piumsombun et al.
Fish demand patterns in nine Asian countries were investigated using a multistage budgeting framework allowing a disaggregated approach to analysing fish consumption. This paper highlights the heterogeneity of fisheries products in terms of species, sources and cultural responses of consumers, facto...
Madan M. Dey
Abstract An analysis of fish consumption patterns, and how they are likely to change as income and relative price changes, is required to assess the welfare impact of technological and policy changes in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. This analysis is based on a matrix of price and income ela...
Ashok K. Mishra, Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Samarendu Mohanty
Abstract This study examines the effects of off‐farm income on food expenditures of rural Bangladeshi households. Our analysis yields unbiased estimates of the unconditional impact of off‐farm income on food expenditures and reveals the heterogeneous effects that occur across the distribution of tot...
Bart Minten, K. A. S. Murshid, Thomas Reardon
In Dhaka, the share of the less expensive coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and it thus seems that the role of rice as only a cheap staple food is being redefined. The increasing demand for the more expensive varieties is seemingly associated with a more important off-far...
Paul W. Heisey, John P. Brennan
Abstract Seed replacement choices differ from decisions about other inputs, such as fertilizer, because the farmer can reproduce seed. Assumptions about rates of improvement in yield potential and depreciation of retained seed are combined with behavioral assumptions and price and technical informat...
Dewan Arif Rashid, Lisa C. Smith, Tauhidur Rahman
Whereas a large number of studies have been devoted to analyzing consumer demand for dietary quantity, much less attention has been paid to the demand for dietary quality. To address this gap in the literature, this paper explores the determinants of dietary quality in Bangladesh using data from a n...
Shaikh Moniruzzaman
Patrick S. Ward, Valerien O. Pede
In this paper, we demonstrate a method for measuring the effect of spatial interactions on the use of hybrid rice using a unique, nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. In order to circumvent the ‘reflection problem’, we consider an identification and estimation strategy employing a gen...
Madan M. Dey
Abstract The International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) and its research partners have recently developed a genetically improved Nile tilapia strain. This paper analyzes the potential impact of culturing the improved tilapia strain in five Asian countries (Bangladesh, Chin...