Under such unsustainable context, society is demanding public administrators' to promote the sustainability of cities, to guarantee mobility and quality of life, while ensuring an efficient urban goods distribution system [4, 5, 6].
States such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala, which have good public distribution systems, will be worse off, as will those like Chhattisgarh and Orissa that have recently universalised and strengthened their public distribution schemes.
However, it wasn't easy to prove it, because their distribution system was good.
One is that private sales of goods have become far riskier, pushing up the price of any goods available outside the state distribution system.
The increasing levels of agricultural productivity and total output, new technologies for food processing and storage, good distribution infrastructure and, critically, an economic system that supplies the goods that consumers wish to purchase have resulted in the availability of a wide range of high-quality and safe foods for domestic consumption and export.
While it surely dented the business empire of Mr. Ismailov, the closing of the Cherkizovsky market also put an estimated 100,000 migrant laborers out of work, dispersed Russia's largest Chinatown and broke up a major distribution system for durable goods imports.
He is building the world's largest refinery in India and has announced plans for a new Reliance company to build a farm-to-fork distribution system for agricultural goods in India.
WalMart is known for having the most sophisticated distribution system for consumer goods and as a manufacturer you can't even begin to think about playing with those big boys unless you've got everything in line and thought everything through.
Commentators also suggest that widespread corruption and inefficiency in India's public distribution system will mean that good intentions are unlikely to translate into actual improvements in food security, and propose alternatives such as direct cash transfers to poor people.
