In view of the urgency and size of the problem how to feed the world’s population, the framework given to the recent … World Food Conference did not seem to be over-extended. The poor results, however, give again rise to the general question …

The volatility of financial markets has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, while particular … that markets have become more volatile, there appears to have been no systematic increase in volatility over the last 20 …