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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 +4 more
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International Studies JournalNigeria’s fiscal deficit remains a persistent challenge, driven by volatile oil revenues and weak budgetary discipline. This study examines the extent to which oil revenue volatility, government spending, and external debt servicing impact Nigeria’s ...
AHMED OLUWATOBI ADEKUNLE
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Examining the link between tax revenue mobilization efforts and capital flight in African countries
Development Studies ResearchThis article examines the impact of tax revenue mobilization on capital flight in 30 African countries, focusing on the role of natural resources. Over the period 1998–2018, econometric analysis based on dynamic generalized method of moments suggests ...
Kuamvi Sodji
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Aggressive Oil Extraction and Precautionary Saving: Coping with Volatility [PDF]
The effects of stochastic oil demand on optimal oil extraction paths and tax, spending and government debt policies are analyzed when the oil demand schedule is linear and preferences quadratic. Without prudence, optimal oil extraction is governed by the
Frederick Van der Ploeg
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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.To address the limitations of existing models, this study innovatively established a mouse model of endometriosis (EMs) capable of mimicking cyclic bleeding. Our results confirmed that this model recapitulates the complete pathological progression from ectopic lesion establishment to systemic responses, exhibiting superior clinical relevance compared ...
Yu Zhuang +7 more
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Rent-seeking, Occupational Choice and Oil Boom. [PDF]
This paper examines choice of occupation between productive activities and rent-seeking in an oil-dominated economy where oil rent is the major source of public revenue.
Farhad Nili, Gabriel Talmain
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Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective Cerebral ischemic stroke causes neuronal oxygen/energy deprivation, disrupting mitochondrial function including reduced membrane potential and bioenergetics, exacerbating neuronal injury. Mitochondrial defects are, therefore, a central neuropathological node and potential therapeutic target.
Ning Bian +9 more
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Asymmetric adjustment of retail gasoline prices in turkey to world crude oil price changes: the role of taxes [PDF]
We empirically investigate the impact of shocks to world crude oil prices on retail gasoline prices in Turkey during the 1991-2007 period. Using a Structural-VAR methodology and monthly frequency data, we report that Turkish retail gasoline prices ...
C. emre Alper, Orhan Torul
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Production Country Origin Impact on Soybean Oil Quality
Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies have suggested variability in soybean oil quality depending on geographic origin of the soybeans. In this study, 1035 crude degummed soybean oil (raw oil unrefined except for degumming) samples collected from vessels and crushers over five harvest years (2020–2024) were analyzed for 11 key quality attributes.
Huazhen Liu +4 more
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