S. P. Kam, Mahabub Hossain, M Bose, Lorena Villano
P.J. Dawson, Pradip Dey
Abstract Recent studies of spatial market integration have adopted error correction models to test for its existence and for market dominance. An integrated empirical framework is proposed here which tests for long‐run spatial market integration between price pairs using a dynamic vector autoregress...
Deliana Kostova, Frank J. Chaloupka, Ayda Yürekli, Hana Ross et al.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of two primary determinants of cigarette consumption: cigarette affordability and the range of prices paid for cigarettes (and bidis, where applicable) in a set of 15 countries. From this cross-country comparison, identify places where opportunities may exi...
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh
This article examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. Using propensity score matching techniques, the MPC for wheat is on average 0.33, ranging form essentially zero for Food For Work (a programme with large transfers) to 0.51 for Food For Educa...
Nigar Nargis, Ummul Ruthbah, A. K. M. Ghulam Hussain, Geoffrey T. Fong et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, the average excise tax on cigarettes accounted for just 38% of the average retail price of cigarettes in 2009, and 45% in 2010. Both these rates are well below the WHO recommended share of 70% of the retail price at a minimum. There is thus ample room for raising taxes on ...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Ashok K. Mishra
Abstract: Rice, may be of a high- or low-quality type, based on the size and shape of the rice grain and variety. Thus, perhaps with an increase in income, consumers might not only switch from rice to other high-value-added foods, but also shift away from short-and-bold-grain to long-and-slender-gra...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Gideon Kruseman, Olaf Erenstein
Purpose Population and income are growing rapidly in South Asia, spurring the demand for food in general, and the demand for higher-valued food items in particular. This poses particular food security challenges for densely populated and emerging countries, such as Bangladesh. The purpose of this pa...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Gideon Kruseman, Olaf Erenstein
Increasing incomes, urbanization, and population growth are transforming developing countries. This structural transformation is changing lifestyles and consequently food consumption and agri-food systems. The present study uses Bangladesh as a case study, a rapidly growing developing economy in Sou...
Madan M. Dey, Md. Ferdous Alam, Ferdinand J. Paraguas
This study was conducted to estimate the elasticities of demand for eight different fish types and four income groups in Bangladesh using year-round data collected from inland areas of the country. It uses a three-stage budgeting framework that estimates a demand function for food in the first stage...
Shahidur Rashid, Rashid, Shahidur
Like many other Asian countries, the causal relationship between agricultural productivity and the incidence of rural poverty has been a widely debated subject in Bangladesh. A number of studies argued that the real agricultural wage rate was declining during the period when the country had experien...
Sonia Akter, Roy Brouwer, Saria Choudhury, Salina Aziz
Zhongmin Wang
Regular and frequent gasoline price cycles are being observed in many Australian and Canadian markets. What is driving these price cycles has been the subject of academic studies and government investigations. The existing explanations for these price cycles all rely on the presumption that drivers ...
Nigar Nargis, Michał Stokłosa, Jeffrey Drope, Geoffrey T. Fong et al.
BACKGROUND: The price of tobacco products in relation to the income of tobacco users-affordability-is recognised as a key determinant of tobacco use behaviour. The effectiveness of a price increase as a deterrent to tobacco use depends on how much price increases in relation to the income of the pot...
Mustafa Abdul Rahman
Poverty being multi-dimensional in nature is the product of various interactive socioeconomic factors. Some of the factors shaping economic status of the household may be cited as widowhood, disability, illiteracy, ageing, household size, household status, dependency, low wages of the female workers...
Paul A. Dorosh
Abstract The importance of food commodities to consumers and farmers leads most countries to attempt to influence the levels and stability of food prices. The specific policies adopted and the degree of price stabilisation actually achieved vary considerably across countries, however. This paper rev...