Household Demand for Consumer Goods in Developing Countries

Eliyathamby A Selvanathan is the Director of the Economics Policy Analysis Program (EPAP) and Professor of Econometrics in the Economics and Business Statistics Discipline at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.Saroja Selvanathan is a Professor of Econometrics in the Economics and Business Statistics Discipline at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.Maneka Jayasinghe is the Head of the Business discipline and Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Asia Pacific College of Business and Law at Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. An Overview of Consumer Demand 3. A Preliminary Analysis of Consumption Patterns: Developed vs Developing Countries 4. Demand System Estimation 5. Household Demand in the Asia Pacific Countries 6. Demand for Food, Alcohol, Tobacco, Restaurants and Soft Drinks 7. Demand for Transport, Communication and Housing 8. Demand for Health, Recreation and Education 9. Demand for Consumer Goods: A Summary