Performance of private trade and cooperatives

Nevertheless, a limited place for cooperatives, other quasi-governmental agen- cies, and the direct operation of the public sector itself still remains. However, new issues have arisen which keep the question of the appropriate balance among the various sectors in full view as an important policy issue. Discussed in this report, these distribution of income; the effect on stability or instability of food supplies to urban areas and the relative stability of prices for that food; and the optimal use of scarce resources in alloca- tion of institutional and personnel resources at the command of governments.