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Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability

This study explores the relationship between the total exports and total imports of the food industry in Sarawak from 1961 through 2007. We examined the sample period of the pre-1997 crisis (1961-1996) and the full sample period (1961-2007) to investigate disparities for pre- crisis sample. Analy...

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Main Authors: Evan, Lau, SNZ, Hamzah, SA, Sallih, MA, Arip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Food Science and Technology 2013
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HB Economic Theory
HC Economic History and Conditions
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7314/1/Hungernomics.pdf
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spelling my.unimas.ir.73142022-02-21T07:09:19Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7314/ Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability Evan, Lau SNZ, Hamzah SA, Sallih MA, Arip HB Economic Theory HC Economic History and Conditions This study explores the relationship between the total exports and total imports of the food industry in Sarawak from 1961 through 2007. We examined the sample period of the pre-1997 crisis (1961-1996) and the full sample period (1961-2007) to investigate disparities for pre- crisis sample. Analysis was carried out using standard econometric procedure and Dynamic OLS estimation for the annual observations of the two sample period. This study’s major findings are: (1) long run relationships were detected in the full sample period whereas they were absent in the pre-crisis period; (2) imbalances in food were found to be weakly sustainable for the full sample; (3) for every ringgit increase in imports, exports rose by RM0.803 for the full sample, revealing that imports grew at a rate faster than exports. This finding suggests that reducing the size of imports may improve imbalances in Sarawak’s food industry. Faculty of Food Science and Technology 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7314/1/Hungernomics.pdf Evan, Lau and SNZ, Hamzah and SA, Sallih and MA, Arip (2013) Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability. International Food Research Journal, 20 (5). pp. 2887-2893. ISSN 1985-4668 (Print), 2231-7546 (Online) http://www.cabi.org/cabdirect/FullTextPDF/2013/20133386651.pdf
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topic HB Economic Theory
HC Economic History and Conditions
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
HC Economic History and Conditions
Evan, Lau
SNZ, Hamzah
SA, Sallih
MA, Arip
Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability
description This study explores the relationship between the total exports and total imports of the food industry in Sarawak from 1961 through 2007. We examined the sample period of the pre-1997 crisis (1961-1996) and the full sample period (1961-2007) to investigate disparities for pre- crisis sample. Analysis was carried out using standard econometric procedure and Dynamic OLS estimation for the annual observations of the two sample period. This study’s major findings are: (1) long run relationships were detected in the full sample period whereas they were absent in the pre-crisis period; (2) imbalances in food were found to be weakly sustainable for the full sample; (3) for every ringgit increase in imports, exports rose by RM0.803 for the full sample, revealing that imports grew at a rate faster than exports. This finding suggests that reducing the size of imports may improve imbalances in Sarawak’s food industry.
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author Evan, Lau
SNZ, Hamzah
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title Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability
title_short Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability
title_full Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability
title_fullStr Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability
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publishDate 2013
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7314/1/Hungernomics.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7314/
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