@bob--interesting article. I had no idea that this was all related to the Doha Round. And it's facinating to read how government meddling with imports and exports has caused this ludicrous mess. Dammit. The country is replete with food. Or should be. This shouldn't be happening. It's mad!
@casanda. Nice blog, and I completely understand how you feel when you go shopping. Prices here jump up (and down too) like punks on a pogo. Prices here in Buenos Aires are very, very odd. Frinstance, in say, San Cristobal, a working class district, fruit and vegetables are cheap. Really cheap. In the posher northern suburbs, you pay at least 2 or 3 times the price. It's completely unlike london, where there's only a slight variation in posh area/poor area street market prices for such commodities. Anyway, I could burble on about prices and markets and how the price system here doesn't seem to match supply with demand till I'm left discussing this stuff with the cat. Sometimes it feels as if we are living in a demented economic experiment.
