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Mini text 1: No to price control
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scarce barriers highlighting
hampering
wealthy
Much more effective than enforcing price control on commodities would be for the world to reduce trade __________ (1) on agricultural products, which would greatly stimulate an increase in production and price stabilisation. So says Stefanelo. __________ (2) that agriculture depends on the weather, the professor claims that countries could keep regulatory inventories, built during times of strong production, to place on the market in years of __________ (3) crops. "That would stabilise prices to growers and consumers alike," says Stefanelo. Instead, according to Stefanelo, the governments of __________ (4) nations are signalling with intentions to control commodities prices, in keeping with the "short-range vision" that will only benefit themselves. "Why don't they suggest controlling the services that they sell us, often subsidized in the country of origin, to stimulate local production and its export, biasing the international market and __________ (5) the development of agricultural production in other countries, such as Brazil and Argentina?"
(By Joel dos Santos Guimar達es - Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum) Visit: http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia_imprimir.kmf?cod=11776849
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