Beneficiaries of cheap-food policies in Trinidad and Tobago
1989
Pemberton, C.A. | Harris, E.L.
Cheap food policies in Trinidad and Tobago assume that the 'basic' food items are best suited to benefit the poor and low income groups. The estimation of price responsiveness of household in different income groups shows that this is not necessarily so. The magnitudes of the price elasticites for cereals, milk, oils and fats are skewed upwards in favour of the low and poor income groups showing that they are the nutritional beneficaries of price policies on these items. The same does not hold for meat. The study of food demand in Trinidad and Tobago demonstrates the desirability of estimating income specific price elasticities for the use of designing nutritional policies. The significance and the chow tests confirm that cereals and milk are the foods which show potential for effective use as nutritional policies. Further investigations to identify the other variables determining household demand for goods in accurately targeting nutrition policies to the low and poor income household, is recommended.
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