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          Editorial                                      Sustainable economy                                                            Meriem OUDGHIRI


          F      RUIT and vegetable prices have almost reached record highs. Many  This situation also highlights a real paradox. On the one hand we have agri-
                 reasons are given. The first culprit is undoubtedly inflation, which  food and distribution industries which are investing, upgrading, and moderni-
                 never stops galloping. Then there is the drought or the great cold that  zing, and on the other hand, wholesale markets with a multitude of players and
          freezes everything in its path. These reasons constitute pretexts for inflicting  a lot of informality. At the time of the subsidized system, it was enough to go
          high prices on consumers, while the FAO has just published its indices of food  to the souks (traditional markets)  to see that the wheat was sold at the market
          products which have posted significant declines (except for cereals). So why  price and that it was intermediaries who actually collected the production
          aren’t prices following the same trend in our country?                  subsidies. The reorganizations of the circuits have been the subject of many
          Suddenly, all these increases legitimately give rise to a debate on their origin,  promises, studies, and recommendations, without much effect. We have conti-
          in particular with regard to the possible responsibility of intermediaries and  nued to use yesterday’s legislation for tomorrow’s issues and allow mafia-like
          other speculators who want to retain power over price formation and refuse any  practices to proliferate.
          transparency. This is a problem that has dragged on for decades and to which  It is really time to target the failures to thwart these practices and reform the
          no solution has been found. Where is this famous logic of supply and demand? system, and to quickly install a sustainable market economy for the country. o
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