Political calculations in subsidizing food
The role of the state in providing food subsidies to consumers has a long though sometimes ignoble history. In ancient Egypt, wheat prices were maintained by government storage schemes (chapter 13), and the value of cheap, ample food supplies for political stability was evidenced in the "bread and c...
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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1988
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161096 |
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