экономическая теория

[stas]

Из дискуссии в журнале that shall remain nameless:

голод заложен в основу традиционного сельского хозяйства (охотникам и собирателям легче, так как их благосостояние не зависит от монокультуры). Чтобы его предотвратить, нужно государственное вмешательство вроде деятельности Иосифа в Египте: силой отбирать у крестьян зерно в сытые годы и помещать в зернохранилища, и раздавать в голодные.

К чему стадам дары свободы?

Comments

[msh.livejournal.com]

У них место кончилось для риса - посмотрите как у них растет население. Но голода там все равно нет, просто экспортировать медсестр теперь выгоднее.

[rsokolov.livejournal.com]

The area under irrigation grew from under 500,000 hectares in the mid-1960s to 1.5 million hectares in 1988, almost half of the potentially irrigable land.

In the 1980s, however, rice production encountered problems. Average annual growth for 1980-85 declined to a mere 0.9 percent, as contrasted with 4.6 percent for the preceding fifteen years. Growth of value added in the rice industry also fell in the 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_production_in_the_Philippines

The government pursued sometimes contradictory goals of maintaining cheap food and raw material prices, high farm income, food security, and stable prices, at times through direct intervention in agricultural markets. In 1981 the National Food Authority was created. It was empowered to regulate the marketing of all food and given monopoly privileges to import grains, soybeans, and other feedstuffs. The ability of the National Food Authority and its predecessor organizations to stabilize prices and keep them within the established price bands, at either the farm gate or the retail market, has been quite limited because of insufficient funds to affect the market, strict purchasing requirements, and corrupt practices among authority personnel.

http://countrystudies.us/philippines/61.htm

Tropical storms and droughts, the general economic downturn of the 1980s, and the 1983-85 economic crisis all contributed to this decline. Crop loans dried up, prices of agricultural inputs increased, and palay [rice] prices declined. Fertilizer and plant nutrient consumption dropped 15 percent. Farmers were squeezed by rising debts and declining income. Hectarage devoted to rice production, level during the latter half of the 1970s, fell an average of 2.4 percent per annum during the first half of the 1980s, with the decline primarily in marginal, nonirrigated farms. As a result, in 1985, the last full year of the Marcos regime, the country imported 538,000 tons of rice.