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Wages of War, Wages of Peace: Food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002
Maletta, Hector - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the … registered in food prices. However, the fluctuations were mostly due to changes in the value of currency, i.e. in the exchange … rate. Food prices in dollars have been remarkably stable, especially during the years 2001 and 2002. During the war years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755011
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Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia
Ngaruko, Floribert - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This study addresses the strategies and the factors of agricultural export performance in Africa compared with other regions, especially Asia. Regarding the figures of agricultural export performance across these regions, the study finds that agricultural export commodities, either primary or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755026
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1923-03-17
1923
Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing … trade commission that the company controlled prices by coercion, declared that "it was a question of the jail or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460624
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1923-03-30
1923
Asserts lumber prices not fixed. - Seattle broker testifies in behalf of Douglas Fir Exploitation Company. - R. D. King … federal trade commission that the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company controlled the prices of lumber by coercion …, then he "knew that there was no effort made to fix domestic prices." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460625
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1928-08-24
1928
Weyerhaeuser Sales company, yesterday. The recent slump in lumber prices has been due to overproduction, and by curtailing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460626
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1929-03-12
1929
Lumber price goes up. - Weyerhaeuser trustees told plan is to better earnings. - Trustees of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Corporation help their quarterly meeting yesterday at the office of the corporation in the Old National building. T. J. Humbird of Spokane, president of the Humbird Lumber company,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460627
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Bivariate Assessments of Real Exchange Rates Using PPP Data
Zalduendo, Juan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper focuses on assessments of real exchange rates using PPP data and examines their limitations when these are based exclusively on bivariate estimations. It begins by presenting an analytical framework of the real exchange rate that shows that these estimations make many restrictive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825611
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Can a Rule-Based Monetary Policy Framework Work in a Developing Country? the Case of Yemen
Elekdag, Selim; Ltaifa, Nabil Ben; Schneider, Todd; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Monetary policy in Yemen is largely rudimentary and ad hoc in nature. The Central Bank of Yemen's (CBY) approach has been based on discretionary targeting of broad money without any clear target to anchor inflation expectations. This paper argues in favor of a new formal monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825743
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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
Lipschitz, Leslie; Verdier, Geneviève; Rochon, Céline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825815
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Social Welfare and Cost Recovery in Two-Sided Markets
Bolt, Wilko; Tieman, Alexander F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
to increase users' participation by setting prices at both sides of the market such that the total price is below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825848