The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 150-162

  Akter, Sonia ^a,b   Basher, Syed Abul ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c Fikra Research and Policy   (Qatar)

Author keywords

First difference estimator; Food price shock; Global financial crisis; Global food crisis; Income shock; Nested logit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898437051     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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