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Título: THE DEMAND FOR FOOD GRAIN IN CHINA : NEW INSIGHTS INTO A CONTROVERSY
Autores: Zhang, Xiaobo
Mount, Timothy D.
Boisvert, Richard N.
Fecha: 2004-04-07
2007-03-07
2004-04-07
2007-03-07
2001-04
Publicador: AgEcon
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Tipo: Journal Article
Tema: Crop Production/Industries
Descripción: There is a substantial controversy in the economics literature over the magnitude of the expenditure elasticity for food grain in China that is caused, to a large extent, by whether time-series or cross-section data are used in the analysis. A set of reasonable elasticities for a complete demand system is estimated by using a panel of county level data in Guangdong Province for the last ten years. The results show that food grain has a small positive income elasticity, implying that food grain is not an inferior good in China. The reason that consumption per capita has not increased during a period of rapid economic growth in income is that the relative prices of the food and non-food substitutes for food grain have decreased.
Idioma: English
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