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Tag Archives: agriculture
How Supermarkets Can End Poverty
Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That’s because industrial countries tend … Continue reading
Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, agriculture, Ashok Gulati, Asia, chains, consumers, developing, Economics, fdi, food, food prices, foreign direct investment, household, Hugo Chavez, India, inequity, International Food Policy Research Institute, Latin America, liberalization, nepal, poverty, revolution, scale, spending, supermarket, Thomas Reardon, United States, vegetables, Wal-Mart, world
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Silent Tsunami
As an update to this previous post, be sure to read this from The Economist. Governments ought to liberalise markets, not intervene in them further. Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap … Continue reading
Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Peg's Page
Tagged agriculture, Developmental economics, Economics, Europe, free trade
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As Ye Sow
So shall ye reap.Am I the only one who finds massive government interference in agricultural markets to be insanity? And, surely our own nation’s recent love affair with ethanol is a significant contribution to world wide inflationary food costs – … Continue reading
Rain for the Ruins
(photo: Michael Deeble) With heavy rains flooding Southern Africa and displacing thousands, surely saving graces must be found in parched and dying Swaziland, a country long thirsting for a drop of rain. But somewhat typically, that oppressed country’s autocrat King … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, History, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, agriculture, biofuels, dictatorship, drought, economic development, economy, ethanol, foreign aid, George Ayittey, HIV, King, Media, monarchy, Mswati, rain, South Africa, Swaziland
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