| Description |
1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Development Economics Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Development Economics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Authors -- Technical Notes -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Measurement of Consumer Demand -- 1.3 A Preview of the Book -- References -- 2 An Overview of Consumer Demand -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Basics of Consumption Economics -- 2.3 Divisia Indices -- 2.4 Non-Utility-Based Demand Models -- 2.5 Utility-Based Consumer Demand Models -- 2.6 Comparative Statics and Demand Equations |
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2.7 Differential Approach to Deriving Demand Models -- 2.8 Demand Equations under Preference Independence -- 2.9 Demand Equations under Block Independence -- 2.10 Conditional Demand Equations -- 2.11 The Rotterdam Model -- 2.12 Other Popular Demand Systems -- References -- 3 A Preliminary Analysis of Consumption Patterns: Developed vs Developing Countries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Data Source -- 3.3 Data Summary -- 3.4 Relative Prices, Relative Consumption and Income Flexibility -- 3.5 Food Budget Share and Income -- 3.6 Double-log Demand System -- 3.7 Frisch's Conjecture |
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3.8 Is There Support for the Preference Independence Structure? -- 3.9 Concluding Comments -- References -- 4 Demand System Estimation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Demand Systems for Estimation -- 4.3 Estimating the Rotterdam Demand System -- 4.4 Estimating the Workings-Rotterdam (W-R) Demand System -- 4.5 Estimating the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) -- 4.6 A Comparison of the Three Demand Models Estimation Results -- 4.7 Concluding Comments -- References -- 5 Household Demand in the Asia Pacific Countries -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Box-Cox Transformation and Income Elasticities |
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5.3 Model Selection and Information Inaccuracies -- 5.4 Household Expenditure Surveys Data -- 5.5 Summary Statistics -- 5.6 Estimation Results and Discussion -- 5.7 Concluding Comments and Policy Implications -- References -- 6 Demand for Food, Alcohol, Tobacco, Restaurants and Soft Drinks -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Demand for Food -- A Review -- 6.3 Consumption of Food, Soft Drinks, Tobacco and Alcohol -- A Cross-Country Analysis -- 6.4 Preliminary Data Analysis of the Disaggregated Food Group -- Time-Series Data -- 6.5 Modelling the Demand for Food, Alcohol and Restaurant Meals |
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6.6 Conditional Demand Analysis of the Disaggregated Food Group with Cross-Sectional Data -- 6.7 Concluding Comments -- References -- 7 Demand for Transport, Communication and Housing -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Demand for Transport, Communication and Housing (TCH): A Review -- 7.3 Preliminary Data Analysis -- Time-Series Data -- 7.4 Modelling the Demand for Transport, Communication and Housing -- 7.5 Conditional Demand Analysis of the Disaggregated TCH Group with Cross-Sectional Data -- 7.6 Concluding Comments -- References -- 8 Demand for Health, Recreation and Education -- 8.1 Introduction |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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8.2 Demand for Health, Recreation and Education (HRE): A Review |
| Subject |
Consumers -- Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Selvanathan, Saroja
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Jayasinghe, Maneka
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| ISBN |
9780429578090 |
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0429578091 |
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