Price Controls : Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes (English)

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 countries to incur heavy fiscal burdens, and complicate the effective conduct of monetary policy. Replacing price controls with expanded and better-targeted...

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Guenette,Justin Damien;
Document Date
2020/04/13
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS9212
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2020/04/13
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Disclosed
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Price Controls : Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
Keywords
price control

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Guenette,Justin Damien.

Price Controls : Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9212 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/735161586781898890

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