Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania

Food Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 795-804

  Pauw, Karl ^a   Thurlow, James ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Malawi)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium modeling; Economic growth; Poverty; Tanzania; Undernourishment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LIVESTOCK; MAIZE; NUTRITION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION;

TANZANIA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80855130460     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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