Trade subsidies, export bans and price stabilization: Lessons of Bangladesh-India rice trade in the 2000s

Food Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-111

  Dorosh, Paul A ^a   Rashid, Shahidur ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; International trade; Price stabilization; Rice policy; South Asia

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EXPORT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PRICE DYNAMICS; RICE; STABILIZATION; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

BANGLADESH; INDIA;

EID: 84879328896     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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