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Petroleum Prices in Bangladesh : A Need for Regular and Appropriate Adjustments
World Bank - 2012
Under-pricing of diesel and kerosene continues to cause major financial problems for Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation …
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Assessing the Impact of Higher Oil Prices in Latin America
World Bank - 2012
For some Latin American countries - especially, the oil importers in the Caribbean - rising energy prices could pose a significant threat to their current account sustainability, particularly if they are accompanied by other negative shocks. In some countries the fiscal costs associated with...
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Congo Economic Update, Third Edition, September 2016 : Adjusting for Better Social and Economic Development in an Era of Low Oil Prices
World Bank - 2016
The decline in international oil prices over the past two years has resulted into an economic crisis in the Republic of Congo that could forestall the transformation efforts to move the country towards higher middle income status. A key strategy that government has pursued in recent years has...
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A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform
Finger, J. M. - 2009
, transparent, and participatory decisions on the application of the import restrictions they allow. The proposed special … agricultural safeguard expands by arithmetic formula the bounds within which a Member may impose a new import restriction. Analysis … useful, the special agricultural safeguard should do more than provide formulas for import restrictions. It should provide …
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Managing commodity price risk in developing countries
Duncan, Ronald C. (contributor);  … - 1993
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Transforming natural resource wealth into sustained growth and poverty reduction : a conceptual framework for Sub-Saharan African oil exporting countries
Toto Same, Achille - 2009
"Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if...
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The co-movement between cotton and polyester prices
Baffes, John - 2005
"The authors examine the price linkages among polyester (the dominant chemical fiber), cotton (the dominant natural fiber), and crude oil (the dominant energy commodity), based on monthly data between 1980 and 2002. The modeling framework incorporates several aspects of the unit root...
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What happens when a country does not adjust to terms of trade shocks? : The case of oil-rich Gabon
Zafar, Ali - 2004
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The role of advocacy in competition policy : the case of the Argentine gasoline market
Serebrisky, Tomas - 2003
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Comparing the impact of food and energy price shocks on consumers : a social accounting matrix analysis for Ghana
Parra, Juan Carlos - 2008
effect on consumers has often been more rapid than for oil-related products, as the increase in import prices have been …
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