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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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2024 English
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IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 23 July 2024 English
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of power supply and lead to blackouts or power rationing. One example was the 2001 drought in Central America … capacity. Although this prevented electricity rationing and the adverse impact on productive activities …
Oxfam GB · 19 July 2024 English
This report examines the systematic weaponization of water by the Government of Israel during its military campaign in Gaza. It highlights the severe water shortages and sanitation crises resulting from …
overall fuel allocations to Gaza, necessitating rationing between various users; this has resulted in an …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 18 July 2024 English
Unmet healthcare needs reflect a failure of access to healthcare for a particular population group and a failure of the healthcare market.
Review, 41, 455–462. Farrell, T. W., et al. 2020. Rationing limited healthcare resources in the COVID-19 era …
NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 18 July 2024 English
The Indian approach to social protection was developed at a time when a vast proportion of the population lived below the poverty line and unequal access to productive resources such …
inception, it has never been fully funded, leading to rationing of work (Dutta, Murgai, Ravallion, & van de Walle …
CIGS: Canon Institute for Global Studies · 17 July 2024 English
common weakness of Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea is energ. [...] The government institutes energy rationing and implements large-scale rolling blackouts and restrictions on electricity use, but the power …
energy shortages. The government institutes energy rationing and implements large-scale rolling blackouts and …
World Bank Group · 15 July 2024 English
Increasing the power supply-demand gap remains the major challenge to securing reliable electricity services in Myanmar. This report presents the recent dynamics in both on-grid and off-grid electricity generation to …
traditional approach to water management, as well as rationing. Hydropower generation capacity addition will … utilization of these plants is minimized due to the rationing of natural gas due to a decline in natural gas …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 July 2024
We study dynamic price competition between sellers offering differentiated products with limited capacity and a common sales deadline. In every period, firms simultaneously set prices, and a randomly arriving buyer …
dynamic settings subject to scarcity, inefficient rationing can naturally occur due to over-provision of a …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 July 2024
Why do some attempts at disinflation lead to substantial reductions in inflation while others do not? We investigate this question in the context of the Federal Reserve’s attempts at disinflation …
the biggest disinflations. Price controls and rationing were used extensively for consumer goods during … reacted with panic buying. Fearing a return to rationing, they attempted to stockpile goods that had been …
NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 6 July 2024 English
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free power pre-existing tariff. under feeder rationing. Transfers State government transfers Refundable … The existing system of limiting water use by rationing power supply does not lead to efficient use of … 2024. Ryan, Nicholas and Anant Sudarshan. 2022. “Rationing the Commons”, Journal of Political Economy, 130(1): …
