This paper describes major features of food pricing policies in LDCs, focusing on their rationale, their effects, and their cost benefit structure. Humanitarian, developmental, pragmatic, and political reasons combine to shape food policies in LDCs, which vary across countries. The food programs and the market interventions of which they are an integral and important part have generated a complex pattern of costs and benefits, both intended and unintended...
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1982/06/01
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Working Paper (Numbered Series)
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AGP46
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2012/12/17
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Food pricing policies in developing countries
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Cost-benefit analysis
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Scandizzo,Pasquale L.; Tsakik, I.; AGR.
Food pricing policies in developing countries (English). AGREP Division working paper ; no. AGP 0046 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/608211468173963223