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What Can the Government Do About It?
In a poor country that is facing this kind of problem, food of all kinds is morexpensive. So what can the government do in that situation? Can it foot the bill for food imports for the country as a whole er? I mean, has there even been a shift to government rationing in some countries? Rationing is a really drastic measure. It requires you to realy be on the ground as well. NIt's certainly something that you can adopt. You can guarantee minimum food supplies for the poorest parts of the population. But the most common government measure is a food price subsidy. What countries like egypt have habitually done is to subsidize the price ofof