Own-price, cross-price, and expenditure elasticities on sugar-sweetened beverages in Guatemala. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:The obesity epidemic is spreading rapidly in Guatemala, a low/middle income country still struggling with undernutrition. Sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumption is strongly associated with overweight, obesity, and non-communicable ...
Violeta Chacon +3 more
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ESTAMAING PRICE AND EXPENDITURE ELASTICITIES FOR MAJOR FOODS IN EGYPT DURING THE PERIOD (1980-2014) USING THE LINEAR ALMOST IDEAL DEMAND SYSTEM [PDF]
Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2016 The objective of this research is to estimate price (direct and cross) and expenditure elasticities for major food commodities in Egypt. The food commodities are divided into six sub-models depending on the homogeneity within each group of commodities ...
Fayyad S.
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Estimating price and expenditure elasticities for select foods and drinks in South Africa using a demand systems model. [PDF]
J Public Health ResBackground: South Africa implemented a Health Promotion Levy (HPL) on sugar- sweetened beverages in 2018 and has a draft regulation on front-of-package labeling for packaged foods containing excess sugar, sodium, or saturated fats.
Dare C +4 more
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Are taxes to sugar-sweetened beverages and non-essential energy dense food implemented in Mexico regressive? [PDF]
PLoS ONEIntroductionIn January 2014, Mexico introduced an excise tax of $1.00 Mexican peso/liter on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and an 8% tax on non-essential energy dense food (NEDF) with at least 275 kilocalories/100 grams.
J Alai Quiroz-Reyes +4 more
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Own price elasticities of the demand for sugar-sweetened beverages in Bangladesh [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) is a major global public health problem. Increasing the price of SSBs through taxation is an effective tool to reduce SSB consumption. Price-elasticity estimates are useful in measuring the effect
Rumana Huque +2 more
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Validating LA/AIDS model in the food market of Pakistan
Heliyon, 2022 The study aims to conduct a consumer demand analysis of the food market of Pakistan by estimating its own price and cross-price elasticities. This study also examines expenditure and income elasticities to show the influence of relative change in price ...
Ghulam Mustafa +4 more
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Economics of farm households' food demand in Nigeria [PDF]
Western Balkan Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2022 In paper was used the panel data from the Nigeria General Household Survey and commodity prices from alternative sources between 2010-2016 to estimate farm households' food and non-food demand in Nigeria. The commodity bundles of all the food groups were
Adekunle Chioma Patricia +3 more
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Demand elasticity of import nuts in Korea
Heliyon, 2023 This paper empirically analyzes import demand for nuts in Korea using Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS). Six budget shares and prices demand equations for nuts group: almond, pistachio, walnut, cashew, hazelnut and macadamia are analyzed during the ...
Xiaoling Zhu
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THE AGRIFOOD SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION IN NIGERIA: INSIGHTS FROM A HOUSEHOLD FOOD DEMAND MODEL [PDF]
Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2021 Research background: The food system is central to a wide range of outcomes such as food security, nutrition and economic development. In this wise, the food systems must meet the needs of a growing and increasingly urbanized population.
Adesola Adebola IKUDAYISI
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The impact of prices on alcoholic beverage consumption in Chile. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE:Chile is among the countries with the highest alcohol consumption per capita in Latin America, but little has been done in the way of public policy and policy research to overcome this problem.
Daniel Araya, Guillermo Paraje
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