Political calculations in subsidizing food
| dc.creator | Hopkins, Raymond F. | |
| dc.date | 1988 | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-21T09:53:28Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-21T09:53:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T15:18:05Z | |
| dc.description | 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 circus" era of the Roman Empire. However, detailed policy calculations connecting subsidies to production and nutritional status confront contemporary government leaders with ever more complex and confusing policy considerations (chapter 2). | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161096 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/100448 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Hopkins, Raymond F. 1988. Political calculations in subsidizing food. In Food subsidies in developing countries: costs, benefits, and policy options. Pinstrup-Andersen, Per (Ed.) Chapter 7. Pp. 107-126. Baltimore, MD: Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) by Johns Hopkins University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161096 | |
| dc.subject | subsidies | |
| dc.subject | developing countries | |
| dc.subject | food aid | |
| dc.subject | agricultural policies | |
| dc.title | Political calculations in subsidizing food | |
| dc.type | Book Chapter |