rationing
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Article
20 sectionsContents
- Civilian rationing
- Origins
- World War II
- Peacetime rationing
- Refugee aid rations
- Other types
- Health-care rationing
- Cultural rationing
- Credit rationing
- Carbon rationing
- Rationing mechanisms
- Ration stamp
- India
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Poland
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Romanian ration card, 1989
Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources, goods, services, especially when scarce, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. There are many forms of rationing, although rationing by price is most prevalent.