Food expenditure and economic development |
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Authors: | David Grigg |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, SIO 2TN Sheffield, England |
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Abstract: | In this article Earnst Engel's statements about the relationship between food expenditure are investigated for 80 countries. Food expenditure as a percentage of all expenditure is shown to have a distinctive geographical distribution, and is related to Gross National Product per capita, although not in a simple linear manner. Historical data for the percentage are discussed and a decline over time and with increasing income is observed. However for some periods of income growth there is no decline and some possible reasons for this are discussed. |
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