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dc.contributor.authorSelvanathan, S
dc.contributor.authorSelvanathan, EA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:41:32Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:41:32Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.modified2009-01-12T06:21:21Z
dc.identifier.issn0003-6846
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00036840500392664
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/13881
dc.description.abstractThis study considers the consumption patterns of food, tobacco, soft drinks, and alcohol in 43 developed and developing countries. Such an analysis is important for policy issues associated with tobacco, alcohol, and soft drinks. The results show that consumers in the developing countries spend a much higher proportion of their income on food than consumers in developed countries. The proportion of expenditure allocated to the other three commodities, tobacco, alcohol, and soft drinks, are similar in the two groups of countries. On average, people around the world allocate about one quarter of their income on food, 2.6% on tobacco, 3.2% on alcohol and 1.2% on soft drinks. The income elasticity estimates reveal that food is a necessity in most countries, while tobacco and alcohol are necessities in most of the developed countries and luxuries in a majority of developing countries. Soft drinks are a luxury in a majority of the developing as well as the developed countries. The own-price elasticities show that demand for all four commodities is price inelastic in all countries.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1567
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1584
dc.relation.ispartofissue13
dc.relation.ispartofjournalApplied Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume38
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconometrics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBanking, finance and investment
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3802
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3502
dc.titleConsumption patterns of food, tobacco and beverages: a cross-country analysis
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
gro.date.issued2006
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSelvanathan, Saroja
gro.griffith.authorSelvanathan, Selva A.


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