Understanding Government » agriculture http://www.understandinggovernment.net Making Economics and Government Simple Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:41:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How the World’s Richest Governments Starve the World’s Poorest People http://www.understandinggovernment.net/2008/05/how-the-worlds-richest-governments-starve-the-worlds-poorest-people/ http://www.understandinggovernment.net/2008/05/how-the-worlds-richest-governments-starve-the-worlds-poorest-people/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 14:00:57 +0000 Josh Wilson http://joshwilson.org/2008/05/30/how-the-worlds-richest-governments-starve-the-worlds-poorest-people/

No doubt, the politicians who came up with the idea of subsidizing the diversion of grain to the production of bioethanol did not intend to starve the world’s poorest people; but the fact that the consequences were unintended does not absolve them of responsibility.

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