Price controls can derail markets. And subsidies can distort them.

价格管制会破坏市场，补贴则会扭曲它们。

Price controls on most prescription medicines are being lifted starting next month.

大部分处方药的价格管控将于下个月放开。

Economists call this idea of the government setting prices, price controls.

经济学家把这种政府定价的想法称为价格管制。

Officials say the shortage will continue until the government lifts price control.

官方称在政府取消物价控制之前，短缺状况将不会缓解。

Price controls, the expropriation of farms and anti-business policies have created food shortages.

控制物价，征用农田，反对商业等政策已造成食物短缺。

Price controls, for example, make it unprofitable for many Venezuelan farmers to produce food.

举例来说，价格管控使许多委内瑞拉生产粮食的农民无利可图。

Many Americans agreed with the idea of price controls. But every business wanted somebody else's prices controlled, not their own.

许多美国人同意控制物价的想法。但每家企业都希望得到控制的是别家的售价，而不是自己的。

One reason not to impose price controls is that they are so hard to remove.

不实施价格管制的一个原因是，价格管制很难取消。

Price controls have made growing sugar cane unprofitable and the country suffers from a shortage of foreign exchange.

物价问题使得委内瑞拉的甘蔗种植毫无利润可言，同时该国的外汇也严重不足。

The bank also recommends linking the removal of price controls with offsetting measures to help the needy.

世行还建议将取消价格管制和抵消措施联系起来以帮助需要的人。