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The Trouble with Sugar

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May 22, 2008
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Given the fuss about high food prices and the role of biofuels in driving them up, Asian nations contemplating food policies should look at the situation with sugar, whose price is driven by a bewildering excess of regulations by both rich and poor countries across the globe.

After a spike to US14¢ a pound early this year, the world price has now dropped…

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