Australia: Is The Demand For Alcohol In Indigenous Australian Communities ‘Price Inelastic’?

Australia: Is The Demand For Alcohol In Indigenous Australian Communities ‘Price Inelastic’?   Dennis Gray, 2012   Objective: To review the findings of a paper that has often been cited as evidence—with potentially adverse public health consequences—that the demand for alcohol in Indigenous Australian communities is not responsive to price and that, in the face of increasing alcohol prices, expenditure is diverted from basic sustenance to the purchase of alcohol.   Methods: The...

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