Showing posts with label Commodities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commodities. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The secret report about food prices?

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A note on rising food prices ; Summary: The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend rough...
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Latest IMF Survey

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IMF Survey - July 2008 Commodity Price Surge Impact Impact on African Economies Factors Behind Oil Price Surge Jeddah Meeting on Oil Policy ...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Silly regulation?

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Bmi, Britain's third largest airline, will fly near-empty "ghost flights" in order to keep valuable take-off and landing slots...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Must Read Macro for the Day

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Calvo vs Krugman ; Guillermo Calvo is one of my favorite economists. But — you know there had to be a but — I just don’t buy his latest miss...
Friday, May 30, 2008

War over Arctic- Can it Happen?

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee??

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Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee ; Some of the members; Ricardo Hausmann / Alberto Carrasquilla / Gullermo Calvo /PED...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Tea- Fact of the Day

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World tea production continued to grow in 2006. The annual growth rate was more than 3 % to reach an estimated 3.6 million tonnes. The expan...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Oil Prices good for Camel business

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“It’s excellent for the camel population if the price of oil continues to go up because demand for camels will also go up,” says Ilse Köhler...

Assorted on Oil

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Commodity Monthly - The commodity correction is over for now Mumford: Oil shock may yet be waiting in the wings Crude oil climbed to a recor...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Rice vs Grapes- Poor vs Rich

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Australian drought has global impact ; Australia is among the top five rice exporters in the world, providing the food staple to millions of...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Econ Talks

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Roberts on the Least Pleasant Jobs Krugman Says Ethanol `Mistake' Is Boosting Food Prices Reaching Global Goals Jetting around the world...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Assorted on Food Prices

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" We have to put our money where our mouth is now so that we can put food into hungry mouths. It's as stark as that ." - Bob Z...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The coming Perfect Storm

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Related; Biofuels Worsening Hunger and Global Warming--So Yank the Subsidies! Food Price Rises Threaten Efforts to Cut Poverty
Friday, April 11, 2008

Development Prophecy from World Bank

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Food Price Surge Could Mean ‘7 Lost Years’ in Poverty Fight

Assorted on World Food Prices and its consequences

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Robert Zoellick said that in Bangladesh, staples such as rice can cost almost half of a poor family's daily income. Prices of bread, ric...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Another FAO warning of food prices

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David Dawe , a senior economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, from Rome about rice prices, poverty in rice...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Welcome to a New World- Police guard rice fields and other development news

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Simon Maxwell of the Overseas Development Institute , and Francis Moore-Lappe of the Small Planet Institute Thai farmers guard rice harvest...
Friday, April 4, 2008

World Bank president on food prices

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As financial markets have tumbled, food prices have soared . Since 2005, the prices of staples have jumped 80 percent. Last month, the re...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Your Government in Action

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Congress told speculators not driving up oil price
Friday, March 21, 2008

Wizard of Wharton on Inflation Risks

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Jeremy Siegel on Bear Stearns, the Rate Cuts and Inflation