@article{Ahmed:42223,
      recid = {42223},
      author = {Ahmed, Raisuddin},
      title = {Foodgrain Supply, Distribution, and Consumption Policies  within a Duel Pricing Mechanism: a Case Study of  Bangladesh},
      address = {1979},
      number = {605-2016-40251},
      series = {Research Report},
      pages = {86},
      year = {1979},
      abstract = {Conflict between the short run welfare of poor consumers  and agricultural production incentives creates some of the  most difficult policy issues facing developing countries.  Resulting policy option constraints are particularly severe  in very low income countries. The conflict may on the one  hand impede the growth in al production essential to  improve long term welfare of low income consumers, and on  the other hand restrain policies to increase consumption,  which in the long run is essential to the success of the  measures taken to increase production. The widely observed  phenomenon of urban bias in food price policy is itself a  product of the nature of low income societies and of this  complex conflict.
 This research by Raisuddin Ahmed  delineates and describes the complex interacting parts of  this conflict in Bangladesh, one of the lowest income Third  World countries. The study is one of a series being  conducted at the International Food Policy Institute  dealing generally with policies influencing the effective  demand for food as specifically with food subsidies  policies in South Asia. A study by Shubh Kumar, based on  detailed survey of families in Kerala, India, was published  in January 1979. It measured the effect of various food  policies on the nutritional status and health of infants. A  study by P.S George, examining historically and in detail  the operation of the food distribution program in Kerala,  is of particular interest in its treatment of the  interaction of distribution and procurement policies.
This  study by Raisuddin Ahmed provides valuable information on  who benefits from the public distribution, what feasible  policy options are available for the rural poor, and the  nature of the interaction between the public and market  distribution systems which together compromise the dual  market mechanism of foodgrain distribution in Bangladesh.  The manner of treatment and types of questions addressed  make the study especially valuable to persons operating or  contemplating development of large scale food  distribution.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/42223},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.42223},
}