{"id":1965,"date":"2012-06-15T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2012-06-15T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:56:28","slug":"more-food-writers-should-be-making-this-kind-of-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/more-food-writers-should-be-making-this-kind-of-point\/","title":{"rendered":"More food writers should be making this kind of point"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Arabic Knowledge@Wharton<\/strong>: So when companies like Wal-Mart bring their logistics ability to Africa, it actually could be a good thing for the poor people of Africa?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cowen<\/strong>: It&#8217;s exactly what we need more of. Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arabic Knowledge@Wharton<\/strong>: Yet there\u2019s a fear Wal-Mart will put the smaller stores out of business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cowen<\/strong>: Yes, they do so sometimes, but they do so by charging lower prices. It makes it more accessible and more reliable. It\u2019s not just the pricing at any one point and time. It\u2019s what happens in the very worst periods. Companies like Wal-Mart are very, very good at keeping up supply and being regular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHnQq4vJfmM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/arabic\/article.cfm;jsessionid=a830cc42ad0f1f2e60383f2b5069776b4212?articleid=2836\">more<\/a>, in interview form.  Much of the discussion is about the Middle East:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plus, it depends on which country in the Middle East you\u2019re talking about. So Tunisia is better run than most places. Lebanon has a saner agricultural policy than most places. Yemen is a total disaster. Algeria and Egypt have not gone so well. So there\u2019s a lot of variety within the Middle East. If you think of a model like Turkey, which isn\u2019t technically in the Middle East, they\u2019ve liberalized and encouraged agribusiness. Turks are much better fed than 20 years ago. When you ask a country like Iran, what should we do? It\u2019s hard to know even where to start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgHzBOoatXk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not even sure Yemen is even a viable country because there\u2019s some chance, they will literally run out of water in the next 20 years in a lot of parts of the country. At this point, I don\u2019t know what they can do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/06\/more-food-writers-should-be-making-this-kind-of-point.html\"><em>Originally posted on Marginal Revolution<\/em> &#8211; click to see comments and suggestions.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabic Knowledge@Wharton: So when companies like Wal-Mart bring their logistics ability to Africa, it actually could be a good thing for the poor people of Africa? Cowen: It&#8217;s exactly what we need more of. Yes. Arabic Knowledge@Wharton: Yet there\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/more-food-writers-should-be-making-this-kind-of-point\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,153,53,156,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african","category-economics-of-dining","category-food-stores","category-general-remarks","category-outside-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}