The report indicates that demand for these items was strongest in those areas where outside income sources were most evident. The results show that there is little support for the view expressed in the earlier literature on Asia that the consumption patterns of the rural rich are more oriented to growth than those of the poor. This is probably because food is more likely to be a nontradable item in Africa than in Asia. For growth to continue unabated, people must have a ready supply of the goods they wish to purchase at rea-sonable prices as their incomes go up. How to increase the elasticity of supply of the nontrad-ables that had the largest MBSs in this report is a subject for further research.
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