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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Grain Procurement"”.
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Essays on food security
… second paper examines the effect of government grain procurement and distribution in the Philippines. I use a structural Vector Autoregression model to estimate impacts of policy shocks on market prices and then use the estimates simulate ‘no policy’ prices. I compare the simulated ‘no policy’ …
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Three essays on the topics of China
… causes of the Great Famine: “Compulsory Grain Procurement (GP)” versus “Communal Dining (CD)”. This paper, using a difference-in-differences method, identifies the long-term effects of CD and GP policies on the survivors who were born or conceived during this famine. My results show that, …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
This dissertation examines identifiable traces of the perpetrators of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor, and their representation in cultural memory. It shows that the men and women who facilitated the famine on the ground were predominantly ordinary people largely incongruous …