Mohammad Reza Pakravan-Charvadeh; Seyyed Safdar Hosseini; Saeed Nori Naeini
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Improving food security status through socio-economic determinants is always important at the household level. In this study, after assessing the food security level of households in urban and rural areas of Khuzestan province, associated factors including economic, social, and racial ...
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Improving food security status through socio-economic determinants is always important at the household level. In this study, after assessing the food security level of households in urban and rural areas of Khuzestan province, associated factors including economic, social, and racial with food security were identified in 1397. To achieve the goals, 1876 and 1495 questionnaires were collected in urban and rural areas respectively. The logistic regression model was used to identify effective factors. The results showed that 63 % and 68 % of households in urban and rural areas face food insecurity respectively. Hamidiyeh county with 18 %, Omidieh 25 % , and Dezful 28 % had the least percent of food secured households in the urban areas of Khuzestan province, respectively. Also, the cities of Shadegan with 13 %, Izeh with 15 %, and Mahshahr port with 18 % had the least percent of food security households in rural areas, respectively. The results of the quantitative estimated model in the present study showed that employment of the head of the household, income, number of rooms and personal car ownership were significantly and directly associated with food security in urban and rural areas of Khuzestan province. Therefore, due to the weakness of income policies which are applying as the only ways to ameliorate food security status in Iran, paying close attention to socio-economic factors related to improving the level of household food security before any intervention is necessary.
Seyyed Safdar Hosseini; Mohammad Reza Pakravan Charvadeh; Habibollah Salami
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One of the main approaches to achieve food security is redistribution measures such as the subsidy reform program with the aim of social justice and improved welfare of low-income groups. In this study, we analyzed the effect of the implementation of targeted subsidies program on food security in Iran ...
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One of the main approaches to achieve food security is redistribution measures such as the subsidy reform program with the aim of social justice and improved welfare of low-income groups. In this study, we analyzed the effect of the implementation of targeted subsidies program on food security in Iran during 2005-2012. A model of food security was estimated after calculating the adult’s energy intake through household’s consumption information. We found an inverse relationship between the subsidy reform program and food security among Iranian households. Due to this program, food prices increased and households’ real income decreased. The results of these changes are the increased cost of living and decreased share of income spent on food.
Seyed Safdar Hosseini; Heydar GholiZadeh
Volume 14, Issue 43 , July 2010, , Pages 23-54
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Since Phillips’ paper in 1958, the literature Phillips curve has witnessed many changes. With a new look, the present study pursues to explain inflation shocks and their relation with unemployment, using a time series data for the period 1965-2005. In this framework, the effects of changes ...
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Since Phillips’ paper in 1958, the literature Phillips curve has witnessed many changes. With a new look, the present study pursues to explain inflation shocks and their relation with unemployment, using a time series data for the period 1965-2005. In this framework, the effects of changes in labor, commodity and money markets on inflation fluctuations are investigated. The unobservable variables of potential production, expected inflation and expected unemployment are estimated using the Hodrick-Prescott filter. The methodology based on Fomby’s approach, which selects suitable time series model, results in estimating the VAR model. The results suggest lack of any significant relation between unemployment and inflation fluctuations. The international evidences suggest that the Phillips curve exists in the nearly full employment conditions. The long stagflation in Iran may be the reason for our finding of the lack of such a relation.
Seyed safdar Hoseini; Habib Shahbazi; Akram Abasifar
Volume 10, Issue 34 , April 2008, , Pages 145-160
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Iran imports more than one third of its sugar consumption. In this paper, we test for market power in the Iranian sugar imports market using NewEmpirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) theory. We use the data for the Iranian sugar market for the period 1974-2004 to estimate the degree of the market ...
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Iran imports more than one third of its sugar consumption. In this paper, we test for market power in the Iranian sugar imports market using NewEmpirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) theory. We use the data for the Iranian sugar market for the period 1974-2004 to estimate the degree of the market power. Our results indicate that market power parameter in the Iran sugar imports market is 0.004. This reveales that the sugar imports market for Iran is competitive, and the behavior of price determination in this market is much closer to price taker than collusion.
Seyyed Safdar Hosseini; Mohammad Reza Bakhshi
Volume 8, Issue 28 , October 2006, , Pages 1-13
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This Paper investigates impacts of macroeconomic variables on the demand for money in Iranian economy using an auto regressive distributed lag model (ARDL) and the data for the period 1340-1382. The results indicate that there is a unique cointegrated and stable long-run equilibrium relationship between ...
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This Paper investigates impacts of macroeconomic variables on the demand for money in Iranian economy using an auto regressive distributed lag model (ARDL) and the data for the period 1340-1382. The results indicate that there is a unique cointegrated and stable long-run equilibrium relationship between the real demand for money and its determinants such as: real GDP, interest rate, and inflation rate. These results reveal that the demand for money in Iranian economy is more sensitive to the real GDP than to the other macroeconomic variables (long term interest rate and inflation rate). Moreover, the long-term income and inflation elasticity of money demand is 2.620 and 0.038, respectively. This shows that money demand function is more elastic with respect to long-term income and inelastic with respect to price level. Also, adjustment coefficient for money demand is estimated to be 0.19. This means that the adjustment process for money demand would take 5 years.
