Full Description
Real Markets: Social and Political Issues of Food Policy Reform contains papers presented at a Seminar on Food Pricing and Marketing Reforms, sponsored by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and held in Geneva during November 1989.
Contents
Introduction: Markets in Principle and Practice Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara; Paths of Authority: Roads, the State and the Market in Eastern Zaire; The Finance of Trade and Agriculture in a Backward Area of Bangladesh; Real Foodgrains Markets and State Intervention in India; Urban Bias Revisited: Staple Food Pricing in Tanzania; The Political Economy of Food Pricing and Marketing Reforms in Nicaragua, 1984-87
