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Trade wars : what do they mean? : why are they happening now? : what are the costs?
Mattoo, Aaditya; Staiger, Robert W. - 2019
the rest of the world …
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Global Commodity Markets : Review and Price Forecast
World Bank Group - 2010
This is a companion to the Global Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and broadest commodity boom of the post-WWII period. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the boom was fueled by numerous factors...
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The role of major emerging markets in global commodity demand
Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, … - 2018
Rapid growth among the major emerging markets over the past 20 years has boosted global demand for commodities. The seven largest emerging markets accounted for almost all the increase in global consumption of metals, and two-thirds of the increase in energy consumption over this period. As...
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Global Distortions to Key Agricultural Commodity Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2009
countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins …
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The role of income and substitution in commodity demand
Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; Nagle, Peter - 2020
analysis finds that the elasticities are close to unity, evaluated at world median per capita income levels. Furthermore, the …
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : an Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2012
World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …
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Return and volatility linkages between international energy markets and Chinese commodity market
Sun, Guanglin; Li, Jianfeng; Shang, Zezhong - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 179 (2022), pp. 1-10
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Reforming Non-Tariff Measures : From Evidence to Policy Advice
Cadot, Olivier - 2018
High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade …
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Trade and Humanitarian Emergencies : A Survey of Trade Policy Issues Affecting Disaster Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
World Bank Group - 2014
The initial hours and days after a humanitarian emergency are generally seen as the most important. Because they affect the rapid deployment of relief to people in need, international trade policies, and the way in which they are implemented, can make an enormous difference to the effectiveness...
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A Challenge of Economic Statecraft
Zoellick, Robert B. - 2008
The World Bank Group has sketched six strategic themes to alert us to necessities and opportunities as Fate hurries … the Arab world; and continually upgrading our knowledge and learning.The challenge is to take practical steps, now, that …
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