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Market-Based Approaches to Managing Commodity Price Risk
World Bank - 2012
Though well-established in the commercial sector, the use of market-based price risk management is not widespread in the public sector, particularly by sovereigns. Recent volatility in energy and food prices, however, has awakened the interest of some governments to learn more about how they can...
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Remarks at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Tokyo, March 13, 2015
Kim, Jim Yong - 2015
commends Japan that has been supportive of the World Bank Group's efforts to make innovative financing mechanisms available to … Japan's accumulated wisdom has shown the world that taking the proper precautions can save thousands of lives as well as …Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discusses the two goals that shape the mission of the World Bank Group …
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Case Study on Tokyo Metropolitan Region, Japan
Jain, Vibhu (contributor); Okazawa, Yuko (contributor) - Research Institute of Urban and Environmental Development - 2019
Japan entered its period of rapid economic growth in the late 1950s, and for half a century since then, the … concentration of population, industries, and other functions in three major metropolitan areas, particularly in Tokyo, was … remarkably intense. For the well-balanced development of Greater Tokyo metropolitan area, comprising Tokyo and seven prefectures …
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Gross capital flows, common factors, and the global financial cycle
Barrot, Luis-Diego; Servén, Luis - 2018
, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain much of the …
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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 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 Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future
World Bank Group - 2017
Climate and greenhouse gas (GHG) scenarios have typically paid scant attention to the metal implications necessary to realize a low/zero carbon future. The 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change indicates a global resolve to embark on development patterns that would significantly be less GHG...
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Using Commodities as Collateral for Finance (Commodity-Backed Finance)
Varangis, Panos - 2017
In most emerging markets, the lack of acceptable collateral is often cited as a key constraint on the provision of credit to agriculture. Three main types of collateral are typically used to finance agriculture: farmland, equipment, and agricultural commodities. In many economies, however, the...
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Integration and price transmission in key food commodity markets in India
Boffa, Mauro; Varela, Gonzalo - 2019
This paper examines patterns of market integration for food commodities in India. First, it tests the extent of domestic spatial market integration for retail and wholesale markets in 2006-14 and 2008-15, respectively, and looks at patterns of price transmission of shocks from international...
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Fiscal Vulnerabilities in Commodity Exporting Countries and the Role of Fiscal Policy
Richaud, Christine - 2019
The paper updates the analysis of the fiscal policy response over the recent commodity cycle, contributes to the analysis of key drivers of fiscal policy procyclicality, and provides a stock-tacking of current fiscal vulnerabilities. Countercyclical fiscal policy during good times has been a key...
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