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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/735161586781898890/Price-Controls-Good-Intentions-Bad-Outcomes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33606 |