The Fiji Islands economy is widely held to be constrained by a lack of market and transport infrastructure. Such infrastructure problems can reduce the efficiency of markets and result in wider than optimal disparities in food prices, both between markets and over time. In this paper we use...

The incomes of people in Fiji who rely directly on agricultural production are under threat due to a number of institutional changes or shocks that are occurring now, or are expected in the near future. In this paper we examine recent evidence on the current nature and level of rural and urban...

The incomes of people in Fiji who rely directly on agricultural production are under threat due to a number of institutional changes or shocks that are occurring now, or are expected in the near future. In this paper we examine recent evidence on the current nature and level of rural and urban...

An understanding of the responsiveness of food demand to price changes is critical to decision making in the area of food policy. The estimation of these elasticities is difficult in developing countries, such as Fiji, due to a lack of reliable data. We review the existing data on food demand...

Improvements in the efficiency of agricultural production represent an important source of growth for the Fiji Islands economy. An analysis of the nature and extent of efficiency differences between root crop farmers suggests that there are modest, but economically significant gains that can be...

This study presents disaggregated food demand elasticities for Australia using data drawn from the latest two national Household Expenditure Surveys covering the period 1998/99 and 2003/04. Adopting an Almost Ideal Demand System approach, a food demand system is estimated for 15 food categories,...