Therefore, in defending the country from the current crisis, economic policy makers face numerous limitations. Some of these limitations also represent a chance to set the country’s economic growth on long-term stable foundations, which should be the centrepiece of any responsible economic policy.
On the distribution front, the weakness of the market microstructure revolves around (i) the availability of logistics services, transportation, and transportation infrastructure related to foodstuff, (ii) the availability of a symmetric market information for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers, and (iii) the presence of policy that favors particular market players which eventually create oligopolistic behavior in the distribution market, as well as rent-seeking activities.