Nigeria suspends import duties on rice to help quell food crisis

Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a raft of other measures to head off a food crisis in Africa’s most-populous nation.
The government said that it will not collect taxes on imported rice until at least after the end of October, seeking to curb rising prices on [...]

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Economics - roots and food

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Xenophon wrote the first economics book as a treatise on how an Athenian nobleman should best manage his estate. It is often useful, when thingking about big questions of resource allocation in the World economy, to return to the Socratic simplicity of that context. If the world were your estate, what would you be doing?
Ischomachus [...]