Yet the parastatal system was criticised for being inefficient, in some cases corrupt, and in all cases for underpaying producers.
Because costs in these two settings are so different, paying only one price will inevitably overpay for one setting and underpay for the other.
Finally, corruption is more pervasive in low-income countries which tend to underpay public sector employees.
The need to protect farmers from disrupted access to consuming markets was all but nonexistent, but the scheme itself persisted, along with the practice of ' underpaying ' farmers.
Women tortilla workers navigated between these political spaces to combat their increasing relegation to underpaid, insecure positions.
That is why they refuse to prosecute those who underpay their workers.
I wonder what would be said if private enterprise gave that as an excuse for underpaying its employees!
There were only seven prosecutions in 1982 out of some 9,000 employers found to be underpaying their work forces.
