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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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Assessing the role of global food commodity prices in achieving the 2030 agenda for SDGs. [PDF]

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Shen Y, Chen Y, Shi X, An Y, Yang M, Qi Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

UNDERSTANDING WORLD COMMODITY PRICES Returns, Volatility and Diversification [PDF]

In recent times, the prices of internationally-traded commodities have reached record highs and there is considerable uncertainty regarding their future. This phenomenon is partially driven by strong demand from a small number of emerging economies, such
Mei-Hsiu Chen
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Commodity Price Volatility: The Impact of Commodity Index Traders [PDF]

Over the years, critics have argued that futures market prices have been either too low or too high. Speculators have often been the target for the wrath of those feeling the futures price does not properly reflect market fundamentals.
Getu, Hailu, Weersink, Alfons
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Monetary Policy, Commodity Prices and Infl ation – Empirical Evidence from the US [PDF]

The past years were characterized by unprecedented rises in prices of commodities such as oil or wheat and inflation rates moved up above the mark of two percent per annum.
Florian Verheyen
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A Synergistic Inhibitor Development Strategy Against Human UDP‐Galactose‐4‐Epimerase

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
The epimerase GalE is crucial for the biosynthesis of cancer‐relevant O‐GalNAc glycans. Here, we employ orthogonal, structurally enabled small molecule fragment screens to yield both covalent and non‐covalent inhibitors against GalE within no more than 22 elaborated compounds.
William M. Browne, Jonathan Pettinger, Teresa Weckwerth, Andrew Purkiss, Sing Hei Lok, Louisa Penicaut, Roksana Ogrodowicz, Raveena Prema, Simone Kunzelmann, Chloe Roustan, Ganka Bineva‐Todd, Saskia Pieters, Francesca Zappacosta, Alfred E. Doherty, Isobel Oram, Christelle Soudy, Robert Quinlan, Joanna Redmond, Svend Kjaer, David House, Stephane Mouilleron, Jacob T. Bush, Benjamin Schumann   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food and energy price shocks: what other prices are affected? [PDF]

Sharp rises in energy and other commodity prices have recently ignited concerns about inflation. Will these price increases spill over to other prices more generally?
Saeed Zaman, Todd E. Clark
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Pass-through of external shocks along the pricing chain: A panel estimation approach for the euro area [PDF]

In this paper we analyse in a mark-up framework the pass-through of commodity price and exchange rate shocks to the main components of producer and consumer prices. Thereby we link movements in prices at the different production stages as firms set their
Landau, Bettina, Skudelny, Frauke
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