economic research service usda changing structure of global food consumption and trade wrs 01 1 g118 41 introduction t he positive correspondence between income levels meat is an accepted theoretical result that appears to hold empirically both within countries country comparisons budget shares allocated using the world bank data indicate consumers in high tend allocate larger their expenditures compared with low chapter 2 intuition underlying this observation straightforward face less restrictive constraints typically lower relative prices than figure section report shows a comparison 1996 share allocations items made by united states kenya american spent 27 percent budgets on products while kenyan just 6 meats level as well recent us consumer expenditure studies suggest greater proportions
