Complete demand systems of food in Malaysia

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 467-475

  Sheng, Tey Yeong ^a   Shamsudin, M N ^a   Mohamed, Z ^a   Abdullah, A M ^a   Radam, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Demand for food; Estimated demande elasticities; Household Expenditure Survey; LA AIDS; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349085610     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/279-agricecon     Document Type: Article

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