Rationing

Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. There are many forms of rationing, and in western civilization people experience some of them in daily life without realizing it.Rationing is often done to keep price below the market-clearing price determined by the process of supply and demand in an unfettered market. Thus, rationing can be complementary to price controls. An example of rationing in the face …

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C.D. Howe Institute · 17 April 2024

offloading the responsibility for allocating the permits to provinces, which raises concerns that the rationing of permits will impede the ability of top universities to recruit the talented students with the

to provinces, which raises concerns that the rationing of permits will impede the ability of top universities


Africa 21 · 16 April 2024

In part two of our feature series on human-wildlife conflict in Kenya, we paint the picture of the pain caused by the conflict and the measures being put in place …

Addis Ababa, highlighted the difficulties of rationing water usage, leading to the inability to perform groundwater shortage and climate change through water rationing, increased water prices, and potential disruptions


RAP: Regulatory Assistance Project · 10 April 2024 English

A 24/7 carbon-free electricity transition tariff is a tool to accelerate decarbonization generally while addressing times and places on the grid where emissions have been most difficult to reduce.

one important reason why problems of practical rationing objective” (p. 292). https://www.raponline.or


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 5 April 2024 English

Prioritizing populations most in need of social assistance is an important policy decision. In the Eastern Caribbean, social assistance targeting is constrained by limited data and the need for rapid …

how to allocate program resources—including by rationing the caseload and administrative resources—across Second, allocating program resources—including by rationing the caseload and administrative resources—proportionally


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 4 April 2024 English

In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and vehicle fees enacted as part of the 2017 Road Repair and Accountability …

relative to other policy approaches (e.g., fuel rationing or taxes on “gas guzzlers”) as a path to reduce


Bruegel · 4 April 2024 English

A key test for the appropriateness of the scope of copyright protection is the impact of a change in protection on the supply of innovative content. [...] Section 2 provides …

licenses for training inputs Apart from quantity rationing, Art 4 CDMS also introduces monopolistic pricing


4 April 2024 English

A recurrent theme in Australia’s defence strategy has been our reliance on and need to defend Australia’s trade routes in a globalised world. The vulnerability of Australia’s limited stockpiles of …

if appropriate measures of conservation and rationing were introduced. Those essential items that are


IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 2 April 2024 Spanish

Este documento presenta las experiencias de mujeres madres beneficiarias del subsidio de cuidado de niños menores de 5 años que otorgó el Programa de Apoyo al Empleo II (PAE II) …

subsidized childcare on mothers’ labor supply under a rationing mechanism. Labour Economics, 55, 1-17.


Yoorrook Justice Commission · 1 April 2024 English

20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …

colonial government had been quick to establish rationing stations, missions and even schools. George Augustus


Cato Institute · 1 April 2024 English

In a March 22 opinion column in the New York Times entitled "The DEA Needs to Stay Out of Medicine," Vanderbilt University Medical Center associate professor of anesthesiology and pain …

manufacturing limits — the gradual and repeated rationing of how much opioids can be produced by legitimate


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