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The Demand for Food in the Industrial Countries 1948-1960

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

K. Jones ,
A. Maizels  and
J. Whittaker
K. Jones
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
A. Maizels
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
J. Whittaker
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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Exports of primary producing countries have for some time been rising more slowly than incomes in industrial countries. A previous article discussed why their exports of industrial materials had lagged behind; this article deals with their exports of food to industrial countries (chart 1).

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 20 , May 1962 , pp. 40 - 51
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Copyright © 1962 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Note (1) page 40 The commodity balance sheets on which this article was based are available on request.

(2) J. A. Rowlatt and F. T. Blackaby, ‘The demand for industrial materials’, National Institute Economic Review, no. 5, September 1959.

Note (1) page 41 The figures in this summary exclude wheat, for reasons give on page 45.

Note (1) page 43 Tobacco consumption per head of the adult population (over 15) fell 7 per cent, as against a fall of 11 per cent in consumption per head of the total population (table 2).

Note (1) page 46 There was not in fact much change in Western Europe's net imports of wheat from primary producing countries. For although Western Europe became more self-sufficient in wheat (the EEC countries were producing over 90 per cent of their wheat requirements at the end of the period, as against 75 per cent at the beginning), virtually all the reduction in their imports was in imports from the United States and Canada (table 4).

Note (1) page 48 Some vegetable oil is used in the manufacture of soap; soap output in most industrial countries has been falling, under competition from synthetic detergents.

Note (1) page 49 The figures are in fact taken from the net imports of industrial countries. Over this period, the movement in these imports will reasonably approximate to the movement of net exports from primary producing countries. There was not much trade in these foodstuffs between the rest of the world and Eastern Europe or China.

Note (1) page 50 The definition of this area has not changed with indepen dence over this period.