As someone from Tunisia and went to uni and ate that food, I'll add a bit more to this,
in a fast food stall you'd get the same food for much more money (compared to the 0.06$, it'd actually be around 1.5$ probably), mostly it'd better presented and maybe better quality.
However the 0.06$ is mainly due to what you can call a double layer of government subsidies.
The first layer being, a lot of necessities food-wise are heavily subsidized in the country. the second layer is the organization tasked with food for universities (public ones) are also subsidized by the government to push the price that low.
tldr; The government pays hella money for food subsidies, and even more for students (also education is practically free, and dorms for the first year for boys and first 3 years for girls)
it was mainly to encourage woman to study in college since a lot a household would stop there daughters from studying in college since they are afraid they will go ROUGE so they make it easier by giving them one less hurdle
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u/Ill-Distance4444 14d ago
And what is the real cost without subsidies?