العدالة الإنفاقية الغذائية و المرونات الاستهلاكية في ريف و حضر مصر

الملخص EN

Egypt has witnessed economic, political, and social changes in the last decade.

The impact of these changes has reflected disparity in the income of individuals and the consequent disparity in their spending on food and consumer goods, and inequity among the masses of consumers.

On the other hand, the policy of liberalizing the exchange rate led to a rise in the prices of food and consumer goods, which calls for studying spending flexibility so that policies can be developed to rationalize consumption and so that the deficit in the Egyptian food balance can be eliminated.

The study based its analysis of the family spending fairness on the major groups of food commodities and total household consumption on the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient to measure justice using the data available in the income, expenditure, and consumption research for the years 2014/2015 and 2017/2018.

The study also based its analysis on elasticities of food expenditure on the expenditure function in its double logarithmic form.

The results of the study indicated the lack of food and consumer spending justice in both urban, rural and all Egypt during 2014/2015 and 2017/2018, but the lack of it was to a greater degree in the case of consumer spending justice compared to its counterpart in the case of food spending justice.

Concerning the impact of the exchange rate liberalization on spending justice, the results indicated that floating the exchange rate did not have a tangible effect on achieving family food spending justice in both rural and urban areas and the total of the Republic, while it had the greatest impact on achieving spending justice of consumption in all Egypt.

The results of the study about the spending elasticities on the main food groups of food and drink indicated that the value of these spending elasticities at the urban level compared to its counterpart at the rural level, which means that these commodities are considered more necessary for the rural population.