Thin Gruel and Hungry Stomachs (Economist)

The Economist cites CGD's research on Japanese rice stocks.

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"American and Japanese officials are still haggling; Japan wants to send 200,000 tonnes to the Philippines. That's nice. But it could go a lot further. A new report by the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank in Washington, DC, reckons freeing stockpiled rice in Japan and other Asian countries could halve world prices. Hungry people would certainly like that; American farmers probably would not."

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