عنوان

Trade Openness, Malnourishment and Income Inequality in South Asia

شماره

LA107142

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Trade Openness, Malnourishment and Income Inequality in South Asia

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Muhammad Zakaria, Xi Junyang, Bashir Ahmed Fida, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The paper empirically examines the effects of trade liberalization on undernourishment and income inequality in South Asian countries (sacs). For empirical analysis data is collected for the period 1972-2013 for five South Asian countries which include Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Panel fixed effect technique is used to estimate the model. The estimated results reveal that undernourishment has decreased while income inequality has increased in the region after liberalization. Economic development has reduced both undernourishment and income inequality. The results also endorse the role of agriculture factors in reducing undernourishment and the role of education, urban bias, and political democratization in reducing income inequality in sacs. These results are robust to alternative equation specifications and openness measures. The results provide some important policy implications. It is suggested that South Asian countries have to cope with the problem of malnourishment with high agriculture development and economic growth. The paper empirically examines the effects of trade liberalization on undernourishment and income inequality in South Asian countries (sacs). For empirical analysis data is collected for the period 1972-2013 for five South Asian countries which include Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Panel fixed effect technique is used to estimate the model. The estimated results reveal that undernourishment has decreased while income inequality has increased in the region after liberalization. Economic development has reduced both undernourishment and income inequality. The results also endorse the role of agriculture factors in reducing undernourishment and the role of education, urban bias, and political democratization in reducing income inequality in sacs. These results are robust to alternative equation specifications and openness measures. The results provide some important policy implications. It is suggested that South Asian countries have to cope with the problem of malnourishment with high agriculture development and economic growth.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

347-371

عنوان

African and Asian Studies

شماره جلد

15/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-2108

اصطلاح موضوعی

food insecurity

اصطلاح موضوعی

income inequality

اصطلاح موضوعی

trade openness

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bashir Ahmed Fida

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Muhammad Zakaria

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Xi Junyang

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15692108-12341114

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y