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The effect of price increases on contraceptive sales in Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Robert L. Ciszewski  and
Philip D. Harvey
Robert L. Ciszewski
Affiliation:
Population Services International and DKT International, Washington, DC, USA
Philip D. Harvey
Affiliation:
Population Services International and DKT International, Washington, DC, USA
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Summary

In April 1990, the prices of five brands of contraceptives in the Bangladesh social marketing project were increased, by an average of 60%. The impact on condom sales was immediate and severe, with sales for the following 12 months dropping by 46% from the average during the preceding 12 months. The effect on oral contraceptive sales was less dramatic: average sales in the year following the increases dropped slightly despite a previously established pattern of rapidly rising sales. There appears no reasonable combination of events other than the price increase itself to explain most of the difference.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 25 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © 1994, Cambridge University Press

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