Price Controls : Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes

Price Controls : Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes

The use of price controls is widespread across emerging markets and developing economies, including for food and key imported and exported commodities. Although they are sometimes used as a tool for social policy, price controls can dampen investment and growth, worsen poverty outcomes, cause c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guenette, Justin-Damien
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
PRICE CONTROL
PRICE POLICY
INCOMES POLICY
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
SUBSIDIES
SAFETY NETS
SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/735161586781898890/Price-Controls-Good-Intentions-Bad-Outcomes
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33606

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/735161586781898890/Price-Controls-Good-Intentions-Bad-Outcomes
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33606

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