Abstract
The study was designed to describe the role of public distribution in Bangladesh, to identify groups benefiting from the public foodgrain distribution programme and assess their income and nutritional status, to assess the cost of the public foodgrain distribution programme, to show the inter-relationships between the public and market distribution systems and deduce their policy implications, and to evaluate the performance of domestic procurement of foodgrains in general and the relative advantage of price support versus fertilizer subsidy policies in particular. The study takes a systems approach to food distribution, although it does not employ simulation as such. Chapter 3 examines the workings of foodgrain supply, distribution, and consumption historically and at present. Chapter 4 takes the information on the operation of the food system, analyzes the interrelationships of its various components, and projects several possible production and import scenarios for 1980. The analysis then turns to the effect government actions have on the system. Chapter 5 explains how public food distribution changes the consumption levels of various income groups, and Chapter 6 examines the role government procurement plays in the wide seasonal fluctuations of domestic rice prices. Finally, the paper explores two alternative policies to augment aggregate supply by increasing production
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