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Resurrecting Food Marketing Systems in War-Ravaged Transition Economies

Among the most urgent needs for war-ravaged transition economies is to reconstruct the food marketing systems, obviously to ensure that citizens have adequate food, but also to fuel much needed trade in early transition, as countries leverage basic sources of comparative advantage. Trade, in turn, stimulates further institutional reform and economic performance. However, from producers to retailers, the entities that comprise the food marketing systems often face formidable barriers. In Croatia, for example, processors and manufacturers, suddenly without the benefit of state funding, struggle with adequate capitalization, and are forced to limit production. Retailers are unable to maintain adequate inventories due to limited resources and credit. In addition, many retail transactions move to informal markets outside of the government taxation and regulatory systems. Finally, consumers are faced with high unemployment and inflation, forcing them to spend the majority of their incomes on basic needs, such as food. In this paper, it was presented preliminary results from a longitudinal study of the food marketing systems in the war-ravaged transition economies of the Balkans.

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