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| Barrett, Christopher B.. |
| In this world of plenty, almost half of the world's six billion people live on two dollars a day or less and the number living on less than one dollar a day has increased over the past fifteen years (World Bank 2000). Between one third and one half suffer under nutrition due to insufficient intake of calories, protein or critical micronutrients such as vitamin A, iodine and iron. More than one child in five lives in acute poverty. Why does such unnecessary injustice continue to disfigure a rich, technologically advanced world and what can be done to care for the poor and thereby to care for and honor God, as the Gospels instruct us? In attempting to answer those questions, at least partly, this paper offers some insights from recent research in economics,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; O1; I1; A1. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14747 |
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| Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi. |
| We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate beliefs about others from their own levels of trustworthiness, could generate this non-monotonic relationship: highly trustworthy individuals tend to form overly optimistic beliefs, to assume too much social risk and to be cheated more often, ultimately performing less well than those with a belief close to the mean trustworthiness of the population. On the other hand, less trustworthy individuals form overly pessimistic beliefs and avoid being cheated, but give up... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Trust; Trustworthiness; Economic Performance; Culture; False Consensus; Labor and Human Capital; A1; A12; D1; O15; Z1. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90947 |
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| Peroni, Marco; Brasili, Cristina; Fanfani, Roberto. |
| The main objective of this paper is to analyse the structural changes in European Agri-food systems in the last 30 years in order to verify the presence of a convergence process towards a more homogeneous structure among EU countries. This analysis considers the relative importance of the main components of Agri-food systems (agriculture, food industry and food consumption) and how they change over time. The analysis of convergence utilise the European National Accounting Data (from the SEC2 Data Base of Eurostat) from 1970 to 2000 for twelve EU countries. We use tests of convergence on cross section data by countries, but also stochastic kernel methodologies to verify the dynamic evolution of groups of countries inside the EU. The results show there are... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agro-food System; Structural Changes; EU countries; Convergence; Industrial Organization; A1; C23; O1; Q10; Q17. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25659 |
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