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A Disaggregated Analysis of Fish Demand in Myanmar

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  • Yee Mon Aung
  • Ling Yee Khor
  • Nhuong Tran
  • Michael Akester
  • Manfred Zeller

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We estimate demand elasticities for fish in Myanmar by fish supply sources and household groups, using a multistage budgeting approach combined with quadratic almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS). Our findings show that fish demand from all supply sources and household groups has increased with income. A substantial share of increasing demand for all fish groups is likely to come from poor and rural households because the income elasticity of demand for all fish groups is higher for poor (0.40) and rural households (0.32) than for nonpoor (0.26) and urban households (0.29). Farmed-fish consumption is the most income-responsive in all household groups. Demand for fish tends to be less price elastic for poor households because fish is their cheapest animal protein source, and substitutes are limited. Effective management policies and new technologies are essential to sustain fish supply from capture fisheries and aquaculture to meet the increasing fish demand in Myanmar.

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  • Yee Mon Aung & Ling Yee Khor & Nhuong Tran & Michael Akester & Manfred Zeller, 2022. "A Disaggregated Analysis of Fish Demand in Myanmar," Marine Resource Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 37(4), pages 467-490.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:mresec:doi:10.1086/721054
    DOI: 10.1086/721054
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    1. Jessica M. Scott & Ben Belton & Kristi Mahrt & Shakuntala H. Thilsted & Jessica R. Bogard, 2023. "Food systems transformation, animal-source foods consumption, inequality, and nutrition in Myanmar," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 15(5), pages 1345-1364, October.

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