This document analyzes the effects of food price inflation on consumer welfare in Ghana from 2005 to 2011 using household expenditure data. It estimates an Almost Ideal Demand System model to quantify the welfare impacts, controlling for expenditure endogeneity and zero consumption. The results show that food price inflation between 2005 and 2011 eroded real household food purchasing power by 47.18%. Expenditure elasticities indicate that cereals, bread, meats, pulses, nuts, tubers, roots and other foods are luxuries while fruits are inferior goods, especially in rural Ghana. Marginal budget shares suggest future food expenditures would mainly go to cereals, bread, fish, vegetables, tubers and roots if incomes increase.
The law of demand expresses the functional relationship between price and quantity demanded.
Assumption of ‘ Ceteris Paribus’. A hypothetical assumption
If price of a commodity falls, the quantity demanded of it will rise and vice versa.
Inverse relationship between price and quantity
Other factors also play an important role.
Real world variables.
The indifference curve analysis has also been used to explain producer’s equilibrium, the problems of exchange, rationing, taxation, supply of labour, welfare economics and a host of other problems. Some of the important problems are explained below with the help of this technique.
(1) The Problem of Exchange:
With the help of indifference curve technique the problem of exchange between two individuals can be discussed. We take two consumers A and В who possess two goods X and Y in fixed quantities respectively. The problem is how can they exchange the goods possessed by each other. This can be solved by constructing an Edgeworth-Bowley box diagram on the basis of their preference maps and the given supplies of goods.
The law of demand expresses the functional relationship between price and quantity demanded.
Assumption of ‘ Ceteris Paribus’. A hypothetical assumption
If price of a commodity falls, the quantity demanded of it will rise and vice versa.
Inverse relationship between price and quantity
Other factors also play an important role.
Real world variables.
The indifference curve analysis has also been used to explain producer’s equilibrium, the problems of exchange, rationing, taxation, supply of labour, welfare economics and a host of other problems. Some of the important problems are explained below with the help of this technique.
(1) The Problem of Exchange:
With the help of indifference curve technique the problem of exchange between two individuals can be discussed. We take two consumers A and В who possess two goods X and Y in fixed quantities respectively. The problem is how can they exchange the goods possessed by each other. This can be solved by constructing an Edgeworth-Bowley box diagram on the basis of their preference maps and the given supplies of goods.
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consumption. An increased price of broiler meat increased the production of broiler meat, and on the contrary
decreased consumption of broiler meat. Fulfilling the equilibrium caused the net import to decrease. This was
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1. INTRODUCTION
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Figure 1.1. World Food Price Index (base 2005=100)
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Introduction
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Global economic growth in investments, trade, food and Market Dynamic
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Food price inflation and consumer welfare in ghana
1. International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics
ISSN 2147-8988
Vol. 1 No. 1 pp. 27-39
27
FOOD PRICE INFLATION AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN
GHANA
Yaw Bonsu Osei-Asare
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana
Legon-Accra, Ghana
Mark Eghan
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana,
Legon-Accra, Ghana.Email: nanaeghan@gmail.com
Abstract
The paper analyses the effects of food price inflation on Ghanaian households using
GLSS-5 household data. Expenditure endogeneity and truncated expenditures were
controlled in the estimation process using the “Augmented Regression Approach” and
Heckman’s two-stage procedure, respectively. Symmetry and homogeneity conditions
were rejected in the unconstrained LA/AIDS model. The study reveals that cereals and
bread; fish; vegetables; and roots and tubers will continue to constitute important share
of Ghanaian food expenditure as they collectively constitute 67% of future food
expenditure. Food price inflation between 2005 and 2011 has eroded real household food
purchasing power by 47.18%.
Key words: Compensating variation, Food price, Inflation, Welfare, Elasticities
1. Introduction
The Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index (FFPI) reached an average
of 237 index points in February 2011; the highest within the last two decades (Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2011). The first of this price hikes occurred in the year
2008 when food prices increased by 75% (World Food Programme (WFP), 2008). This
was followed by a small reduction in the price levels until it started rising up again. The
increase in the price levels lead to social and political instability in a number of
developing countries and prices are expected to continue above the pre-2004 trend level
for the near future (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -
FAO, 2008).
In Ghana, the 2007/2008 fiscal year observed a high rate of food price increases
following the global food crises. For instance the prices of cereals increased by 20% to
30% between 2007 and 2008 (Wodonet al., 2008), food component of the consumer price
index also rose from 193.9 to 246.7 indicating a 27% food inflation within the same
period (Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), 2009). The food crises put extra burden on
consumers by reducing their real income as 44% and 60% of household expenditure are
spent on food in urban and rural Ghana respectively (GSS, 2008).
Prices of goods and services have great impact on the livelihoods of consumers;
food prices have greater impact on non-food producing households and on inflation trend
in Ghana as it is composed of almost 44.91% by weight of the Consumer price in index
(GSS, 2011). Ghana is a lower-middle-income country, hence as income increases the
demand for goods and services especially food commoditiesare expected to rise. The
2. Price Inflation and Consumer Welfare in Ghana
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pattern of consumption will also be affected, as consumers are likely to consume more
protein than cereals/carbohydrates. In developing countries such as Ghana, greater shares
of income of peopleare spent on food (Banerjee &Duflo, 2007).
Several policy interventions have been implemented to protect consumers from
rising food prices in Ghana(Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP),
2009).For instance during the year 2008, import duties on rice, yellow corn, wheat and
cooking were suspended, all in an attempt to cushion Ghanaian consumers from the
severe impacts of further price increases.
The cost of higher food and fuel prices to consumers in developing countries has
been estimated to be about US$680 billion on aggregate in 2008 (Ministry of Finance and
Economic Planning (MoFEP), 2009). Rising food prices have great impacts on poverty
levels and food security since access to food is largely dependent on the price of the
various food commodities. Given that food is the basic need of individuals, it is the
priority on the expenditures of people, especially people within low and middle-income
groups. Food price increases reduce the real income of households thereby reducing their
purchasing power and shifting available income on foods.
It is important to quantify the extent to which changes in food prices affect welfare
of Ghanaian households. In Ghana, there is the general recognition of the effects of food
price changes on household welfare and yet relatively little is known about the
quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare. The object of this study is
to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in Ghana from 2005
to 2011.
This study makes contribution to the existing literature in two ways; first, the study
models a complete demand system, instead of a partial demand modelling approach often
adopted, for all food groups in Ghana.Secondly, expenditure endogeneity and selectivity
bias resulting from zero consumption, which are often ignored in several assessments,
areexplicitly controlled for in the estimation process in this study. The rest of the paper is
structured as follows; Section 2 outlines the model specification. In section 3,
thedescription of the data is presented. Sections 4 and 5 provide results and discussions
whiles section 6 presents the conclusions.
2. Model Specification and Estimation
2.1. Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS)
The AIDS model has been widely applied in empirical demand studies since its
conception in 1980. Buse (1994) for instance states that closer examination of 207
accessible citations revealed that 68 out of 89 empirical applications used the Linear
Approximate version of the AIDS model and that 23 out of 25 papers used the LA/AIDS
estimation for estimating demand functions.Following Deaton and Muellbauer
(1980).The AIDS model is specified as:
(1)
Where wi is the budget share devoted to commodity i in the commodity groups, pjis the
nominal price of commodity j, is total expenditure of the household on food
commodities, are all parameters to be estimated with as the error term of the
model. P is a translog price index defined by:
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(2)
The use of the price index in (2) raises estimation difficulties caused by the non-linearity
of parameters. Originally, Deaton and Muellbauer (1980) suggested the use of Stone’s
price index defined by:
(3)
but the use of stone’s price index causes a problem of simultaneity in the model because,
the budget share (wi) serves as both dependent and independent variable in the model
(Eales&Unnevehr, 1988; and Moschini, 1995). Following Moschini (1995), a Laspeyres
price index is used to substitute for the Stone’s Price index in (3). According to
(Moschini, 1995) the Laspeyres price index is specified as:
(4)
Where is the geometric mean budget share of the ith
commodity.
Substituting equation (3) into the AIDS model (1) gives the Linearised Almost Ideal
Demand System (LAIDS) as:
- (5)
where and is the mean price of the jth
commodity, all
other variables retain their previous interpretation.For AIDS model to be consistent with
demand theory, the following restrictions are imposed on the AIDS model:
Adding Up,
(6)
Homogeneity,
(7)
Symmetry,
(8)
The Heckman’s two-stage procedure is used to estimate the demand model to
overcome the problem of selection bias when zero-consumption of commodities is
present in the data set. Expenditure endogeneityis controlled using the Augmented
Regression Approach proposed by Blundell and Robin (1999).
To avoid singular matrix during estimation due to the use of budget share equations,
the demand equation of “other food” is dropped from the system of demand equations.
The parameters of the omitted budget share equation are retrieved by using the property
of adding-up.
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The demand model for all the ten food aggregates are estimated simultaneously by
using the Zellner’s Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) procedure with STATA
version 11.
Following Ackah and Appleton (2007), the elasticities are computed at sample
means as follows:
(i) Expenditure Elasticity
(9)
(ii) Marshallian (Uncompensated) Elasticity
(10)
(iii) Hicksian (Compensated) price elasticity as estimated from the Slutsky equation:
(11)
(iv) Marginal Expenditure shares (Abdulaiet al.,1999):
(12)
where is the Kronecker delta defined by:
2.2. Welfare Model
To estimate the magnitude of partial welfare effects, usually, it is useful to obtain a
money metric utility of welfare change. The money metric utility is derived by estimating
an expenditure function defined as the minimum expenditure required to maintain a
specific utility level at a given set of prices (Deaton &Muellbauer, 1980). For a
household to remain at the same level of utility after a change in price, the household
would have to be compensated for the price change. Thus, the amount of money required
to restore a household to her initial level of utility is known as compensating variation.
The compensating variation measures the monetary value of welfare effects resulting
from a price change.
The consumer initially faces a vector of price with expenditure
level and maximized utility . Now, with new vector of prices and
same expenditure, the maximized utility becomes . Following Deaton
and Muellbauer (1980), the compensating variation can implicitly be defined through the
indirect utility function V as:
(13)
Where is household expenditure and is a vector of prices, the superscript 0 and 1
refers to before and after price change respectively.
In terms of expenditure function, the compensating variation can explicitly be expressed
as:
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(14)
Following Friedman and Levinsohn (2002), the second-order Taylor expansion of
the minimum expenditure function can be specified as:
(15)
where refers to change in welfare, wiis budget share of commodity i, is the
compensated price elasticity of commodity i with respect to the change in price of
commodity jand is the proportionate change in the price of commodity i computed
as:
(16)
The nominal prices are deflated using food consumer price index to express all
current prices in the constant 2005 prices.The compensating variation would be positive
if there is a loss in welfare resulting from the price increase. However, if there is an
improvement in welfare following a price change, the compensating variation would be
negative.
2. Data
The Ghana Living Standard Survey Round Five (GLSS5) developed and
implemented by the Ghana Statistical Service is the main expenditure data set used for
this study. The GLSS is a multi-purpose survey of households in Ghana that collects
information on different dimensions of living conditions of Ghanaians. The GLSS has
enough information to estimate total food consumption of each household in the form of
expenditure on the commodities consumed. The GLSS5 sampled 8,687 households,
interviewed between September 2005 and September 2006, however, only 8,625
households were used after data management process.
The price data was collected separately from the Ghana Statistical Service since the
GLSS5 did not capture commodity prices at the local markets. Hence, the regional average
retail prices of fifty-eight food commodities were used to substitute for community
prices.These individual prices were later weighted by the respective geometric mean of that
food commodity to compute the aggregate commodity prices using the Laspeyres price
index. The individual food commodities were aggregated as Bread & Cereals, Tubers &
Roots, Fish, Meat, Oils & Fats, Nuts & Pulse, Dairy, Vegetables, Fruits, Cooked meal and
“Others”. The “others” are used to represent all other food commodities that do not fall
under any of these aggregates but data was collected on. The prices for these commodities
during the years 2005 to 2011 were used for the analysis.
3. Testing of Theoretical Restriction
Theoretical restrictions of homogeneity and symmetry were tested in the
unrestricted Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) AIDS model. The result of the test
for symmetry and homogeneity is reported in Table 1. The null hypotheses that prices are
homogenous of degree zero and that the cross price derivatives are identical were tested.
The results of the test of the two hypotheses, as presented in Table1, indicate that both
symmetry and homogeneity null hypotheses had to be rejected. This implies that both
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homogeneity and symmetry conditions did not hold in the model and therefore must be
imposed during the estimation process. Earlier studies in demand analysis such as Barten
(1969), Christensen et al. (1975) and Deaton and Muellbauer (1980) as well as recent
studies such as Liao and Chern (2007), Taljaardet al. (2004) and Abdulaiet al. (1999)
rejected homogeneity hypotheses.
Table 1. Wald test for homogeneity and symmetry restrictions in the AIDS model
Restriction
Wald test
statistic
Degrees of
freedom
p-value
Homogeneity 32.93 10 0.0003
Symmetry 673.20 45 0.0000
Source: Author’s calculations from GLSS5
4. Results
5.1. Expenditure Elasticities
The calculated expenditure elasticities and the marginal budget shares are presented
in Table 2. The first, second and third columns under the expenditure elasticity presents
the expenditure elasticity for Ghana, urban and rural areas respectively. All expenditure
elasticities are positive with the exception of expenditure elasticity for fruits that is a
negative value. The positive expenditure elasticities imply that the food commodities
under consideration are normal goods. This means that expenditures on food items rise
with increase in income. This is consistent with consumer demand theory. Commodities
with expenditure elasticities greater than one are theoretically classified as luxuries
whiles expenditure elasticities less than one are classified as necessities.
Fruits appear to be an inferior food item1
in rural Ghana since the expenditure elasticity
of demand for fruit in rural Ghana is -0.33. This means that if rural income increases by
1%, expenditures on fruits are likely to reduce by 0.33%. The possible reason that can be
attributed to inferiority of fruits in rural Ghana is that, in rural areas, fruits are consumed
without necessarily purchasing them; fruits are abundant in rural Ghana.i
From Table 2, cereals and bread, meats, pulse and nuts, tubers and roots, and “others” are
classified as luxuries because the expenditure elasticities on these food commodities are
greater than 1. The theoretical classification as luxury may not necessarily make the
commodity a luxurious commodity. For instance, considering the fact that cereals and
roots and tubers are staples in Ghana, then classifying them as luxuries may be
misleading. However, the finding reveals that Ghanaian households cut down on their
expenditures on cereals and roots and tubers as a means of coping strategy against food
price increases. The expenditure elasticities of roots and tubers and meat are consistent
with the results from the GLSS 4 (Ackah& Appleton, 2007) where expenditure
elasticities for roots and tubers, fish and meat were 1.439, 0.699 and 1.742 respectively.
The marginal budget shares measures the future allocation of any increases in income.
The first, second and third columns under the marginal budget share in Table 2 presents
the marginal budget share for Ghana, urban and rural areas respectively.From Table2, if
Ghanaian household income should increase, on the average the Ghanaian consumer is
expected to spend out of the increased income 24.52% on cereals and bread, 17.19% on
fish, 13.56% on vegetables, 11.76% on roots and tubers, 8.82% on meat, 7.37% on other
food commodities, 6.09% on cooked food, 3.64% on pulse and nuts, 3.31% on oils and
fats, 2.43% on dairy and 1.3% on fruits.
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Table 2: Expenditure elasticities and marginal expenditure shares
Expenditure elasticity Marginal expenditure shares
Ghana Urban Rural Ghana Urban Rural
Cereals
and Bread 1.2384 1.3578 1.1865 0.2452 0.2379 0.2541
Meat 1.1771 1.3361 0.9665 0.0882 0.1196 0.0624
Fish 0.7866 0.8948 0.7995 0.1719 0.1443 0.2073
Dairy 0.791 0.5554 1.2131 0.0243 0.0276 0.0209
Oils and Fats 0.8386 1.0087 0.8432 0.0331 0.0263 0.0413
Fruits 0.7565 0.5004 -0.3308 0.013 0.0156 -0.0024
Vegetables 0.9239 1.0398 0.9187 0.1356 0.1341 0.1465
Pulse and Nuts 1.2777 0.907 1.394 0.0364 0.0186 0.0476
Roots and
Tubers 1.2955 1.3261 1.1732 0.1176 0.1471 0.0897
Cooked food 0.5158 0.3485 0.626 0.0609 0.0633 0.0458
Others 1.9974 2.6131 1.9177 0.0737 0.0656 0.0868
Source: Author’s calculations from GLSS5
The marginal budget shares for rural and urban areas and in Ghana as a whole do
vary slightly in figures but in terms of rankings using their relative magnitudes, the
variations are marginal. In all three instances, cereals and bread get the largest share of
the marginal budget between the range of 23.79% to 25.41% whiles fruits get the lowest
share of the marginal budget share.
5.2. Price Elasticities
The uncompensated own price and cross price elasticity matrix is presented in
Table3. As expected, all own price elasticities are negative, this is consistent with
consumer demand theory. Negative own price elasticity means that an increase in the
price of the food group results in a decrease in demand for that food group. These are
shown in bold figures along the major diagonal in Table3. Cereals and bread, meat, fish
and fruits are relatively own price elastic whiles the rest of the food commodities are own
price inelastic. Meat is highly elastic with own price elasticity of -1.4 suggesting that
when the price of meat increases by 1%, demand for meat will reduce by 1.4% and vice
versa. The own price elasticity of oils and fats, fruits and vegetables are close to unity.
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The results indicate that food commodities are responsive to own price changes. An
average own price elasticity of -0.91 indicates that generally food commodities are
responsive to own prices. All cross price elasticities are inelastic as they are all less than
1. This indicates that there is weak response of one commodity group to changes in the
price of other food groups. This result is expected because there is less substitutability
between food groups; substitutability happens within food groups.
Positive cross price elasticity implies that the commodities are substitutes while
negative cross price elasticities indicate that the commodities are compliments. The cross
price elasticities are generally low in absolute values suggesting that the degree of
responsiveness of demand for one food group to the price of another food group is low.
Fruits measure relatively higher degree of substitution between dairy and meats
(elasticity of 0.33 and 0.31 respectively).Fish and tubers measures low positive cross
price elasticities with meat and cereals respectively.
The compensated price elasticities are presented in Table 4, the compensated own
price elasticity measures the strength of the pure substitution effects in affecting
consumption of the food groups under consideration. Again, as expected, all compensated
own price elasticities are negative. The negative compensated price elasticities imply that
the necessary condition of concavity of the cost function used to derive the AIDS model
is fulfilled (Osei-Asare, 2004).
The compensated price elasticity assumes that the consumer has been compensated
with income to keep the household utility constant. The compensated price elasticities of
demand are generally smaller in absolute values than the uncompensated price
elasticities. The dynamics of the compensated price elasticities are similar to the
uncompensated elasticities; the only difference is that the absence of income effect in the
compensated price elasticities makes it smaller in absolute values. With income
compensation, still demand for cereals and bread, meat, fish, and fruits are owns price
elastic. A change in the price of any of them will result in more than proportionate
change in quantity demanded of that food commodity group.
5.3. Compensating Variation
The welfare implications of food price increases are presented in Table 5 and
Table6. The estimated compensated price elasticities are used to compute the
compensating variation to measure the welfare impact of food price changes observed
between 2005 and 2011. The compensating variation measures the amount required to
compensate households for price changes between 2005 and 2011. It must be noted that
the compensated variation is relative to only total household food expenditure.
Both the first and second order approximations of the compensating variation are
presented in Table5. The estimates in the second order approximations are smaller than
that of the first order approximations because the second order involves substitution
effects; this is consistent with a priori expectation. The compensating variation is
disaggregated by locality and poverty status.
The results suggest that all households in Ghana suffered adversely from food price
increases between 2005 and 2011. On the average Ghanaian households need to be
compensated with approximately 47.18% of their 2005 total household expenditure on
food in order to accommodate the adverse impact of food price changes they faced
between 2005 and 2011. Comparing rural and urban localities, rural households suffered
more than urban households as the rural households need a compensation of
approximately 48.32% compare to urban household of about 46.05% compensation.
Within the urban localities, it is the poor households that suffer relatively more, requiring
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a compensation of about 46.97% of their 2005 food expenditure, this finding is consistent
with studies of Ackah and Appleton (2007). Similarly, in rural localities, it is the poor
households that suffer more adversely from food price increases. Rural poor households
need to be compensated to a tune of about 48.43% of their 2005 food expenditure. Over
all poor households in rural localities are likely to suffer most adversely followed by non-
poor households in local localities.
Table 5: Compensating Variation Estimates (2005-2011)
Household Category First-order Effects (%) Full Effects (%)
Ghana 49.90 47.18
Urban 48.83 46.05
Urban Non-poor 48.82 46.06
Urban Poor 49.01 46.97
Rural 50.66 48.32
Rural Non-poor 50.31 48.36
Rural Poor 51.30 48.43
Source: Author’s calculations from GLSS5
Table 6: Compensating variation (Year on Year)
Year
Compensating Variation
Ghana Urban Rural
2005 - - -
2006 -0.0215 -0.0157 -0.0259
2007 0.017 0.0242 0.0119
2008 0.0599 0.0546 0.0645
2009 0.3539 0.3315 0.3679
2010 0.0442 0.0502 0.0400
2011 0.0072 0.0106 0.0049
Source: Author’s calculations from GLSS5
The changes in the national average food price and the compensated elasticities
were used to assess the welfare impact of the price changes. The year on year
compensation variations for Ghana, Rural and Urban Ghana are presented in Table 6. On
the average, the welfare of Ghanaians improved by closely 2% between 2005 and 2006.
In 2007, average welfare of Ghanaians reduced by approximately 1.7% of 2006 food
expenditure, this trend of worsening welfare continued in 2008 by 6% over 2007 food
expenditure. The worsening welfare further deteriorated by 35% in 2009 following high
changes in foodprices in Ghana. After 2009 up to 2011, the average declines in welfare
were 4% (2010) and 0.7% (2011). The national trend in welfare changes between 2005
and 2011 were similar for rural and urban households in Ghana. The remarkable
difference between rural and urban welfare changes were that in 2008 and 2009, where
the welfare losses in rural households were greater than that of the urban households.
Considering the change in welfare from 2008 to 2009, rural households had a severe
decrease in welfare levels of about 36.7% of 2008 food budget indicating 1.4% and
3.64% more than the average welfare loss of Ghanaian household and urban households
respectively.
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5. Conclusion and Policy Implications
The study sought to assess the effects of rising food prices on Ghanaian households
by estimating a complete demand system for food and further used the compensating
variation to estimate the welfare losses.The studymakes contribution to literature in two
ways by controlling effects of zero consumption and expenditure endogeneity in the
L/AIDS model to derive consistent estimates.
The marginal expenditure shares shows that cereals and bread, fish, vegetables and
roots and tubers will continue to constitute important expenditure sharesin the Ghanaian
food basket as they collectively constitute 66% of future food expenditure.The
expenditure elasticity of demand for all the food groups were positive and all own price
elasticities (compensated and uncompensated) were also negative. Both conditions imply
that food is a normal commodity and negative compensated own price elasticity also
signifies that the condition of concavity used to derive the cost function is also satisfied.
Own price elasticities of food demand ranged from -0.35 to -1.4 with9 of the
elasticities being more than 0.6 in absolute terms. Also, expenditure elasticities of
demand ranged from 0.52 to 1.99. These figures show that food demand in Ghana
respond to changes in food prices as well as changes in food expenditures. With price
elasticity being more elastic than expenditure elasticity for some food groups (cereals and
bread; meat; fish; oils and fat; fruits; vegetables; and cooked meal) and expenditure
elasticity being more elastic than price elasticity for other food groups (dairy; pulse and
nuts; roots and tubers; and “others”), an income and price policy mix will be effective in
stimulating food demand in Ghana.
The compensating variation of Ghanaian households between 2005 and 2011 was
47.18%. This indicates that food price increase between 2005 and 2011 has eroded real
household food purchasing power by 47.18%. The distributional burden of the effects of
rising food prices between 2005 and 2011 fell on rural poor consumers since they had the
highest compensating variation. The year on year compensating variation analysis shows
further that, real food price increases in 2009 had the most adverse impact on consumer
welfare. Furthermore, the resulting compensating variation shows that there is adverse
impact of food price increase on Ghanaian households.
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the Ghana Statistical Service for
providing the data for this study. The authors are also grateful to Professor WayoSeini of
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana and
anonymous Journal reviewers for the useful comments on earlier manuscript.
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Fruits may not be inferior goods but culturally Ghanaians do not eat fruits as part of their
diet even in urban areas.