I BELIEVE that subsidy, like monopoly, is a market intervention we must do without. In a perfect market set-up, a subsidy will only encourage economic inefficiency and stifle growth.
Under normal circumstances, when resources are scarce, a price mechanism must be allowed to take its own course. But economics is not a perfect science, and most developing countries are operating under imperfect economic regimes.
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