Yingluck's Misguided Rice Policy
The ability of Southeast Asian nations to screw up the one grains market for which they are a key part of international trade seems to know no bounds.
Three years ago it was the Philippines and Vietnam which together conjured up a crisis, one by exaggerating the amount of rice it needed to buy and Vietnam by limiting exports to keep local prices low, thu…
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