13 April 2008
Robija zbog riže
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Regulacija,
Svet
Filipinska vlada hapsi trgovce i preti im doživotnom robijom ukoliko gomilaju pirinač. Još nisu objasnili šta je gomilanje, pa su neki trgovci skroz prekinuli otkup. Naime, vlada subvencioniše pirinač, ali kako su cene u svetu počele da rastu ovo je postala skupa praksa. Da bi povećali ponudu pirinča zabranili su gomilanje. Sada trgovci koji uvoze pirinač i čuvaju ga za sezonu kada je ponuda manja, moraju da prodaju svoje zalihe. Rezultat ove politike će verovatno biti nestašice i dugački redovi za subvencionisani pirinač, dok će cena pirinča na crnom tržištu ukalkulisati i rizik od dugogodišnje robije. Recept za stvaranje nestašice je uvek isti, subvencionisanje i kontrola cena.
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i IMF se zabrinuo:
IMF warns rising food prices raising risk of war
Rising food prices could have terrible consequences for the world, including the risk of war, the IMF has said, calling for action to keep inflation in check.
"Food prices, if they go on like they are doing today ... the consequences will be terrible," International Monetary Fund managing director Dominque Strauss-Kahn said.
"Hundreds of thousands of people will be starving ... (leading) to disruption of the economic environment," Strauss-Kahn told a news conference at the close of the IMF spring meeting here.
Development gains made in the past five or 10 years could be "totally destroyed," he said, warning that social unrest could even lead to war.
"As we know, learning from the past, those kind of questions sometimes end in war," he said. If the world wanted to avoid "these terrible consequences," then rising prices had to be tackled.
Skyrocketing prices on rice, wheat, corn and other staple foods like milk particularly hurt developing nations, where the bulk of income is spent on the bare necessities for survival.
Higher energy prices, too, are driving up the cost of food, as well as stoking broader inflation.
In recent months, rising food costs have lead to social unrest in several countries such as Haiti and Egypt. Thirty-seven countries currently face food crises, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization
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