@article{Liefert:131619,
      recid = {131619},
      author = {Liefert, William M.},
      title = {FOOD SHORTAGES IN THE FORMER USSR: Mainly the Result of  Monetary Imbalances},
      journal = {Choices},
      address = {1992},
      number = {316-2016-7061},
      pages = {3},
      year = {1992},
      abstract = {Wage, price, and monetary policies during the Gorbachev  years have been most
responsible for the food crisis in the  republics of the former USSR, not problems in
agricultural  production. These non-agricultural policies distorted  demand, weakened
the distribution system, and created  inflationary macroeconomic imbalance. In 1991,
though,  these conditions finally began to affect the supply side of  the economy, causing
output, not onlY In agricu ture but  across sectors, to fall. The main short-run
objective of  the ambitious reform program begun by the Russian Republic  in January
1992 is to restore macroeconomic balance and  thereby eliminate the inflationary preshe},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/131619},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.131619},
}