A number of recent studies have shown that the short term level of economic activity and employment in primary commodity exporting countries is particularly vulnerable to price fluctuations in world commodity markets. The authorities in such countries, in seeking to maintain output and...

The large OPEC-engineered real world oil price increases of the early and late 1970?s have set in train, via a highly integrated international trade and finance system, significant resource transfers from energy-poor to energy-rich countries. In accommodating these resource transfers both energy...

The vagaries of nature and of world grain markets, causing domestic food production and food import prices to fluctuate, are commonly considered the major external sources of food insecurity in developing countries. The need for steady domestic food production, and for stable world grain prices...

Die Rahmenbedingungen der Landwirtschaft der Entwicklungsländer verändern sich durch preisniveauwirksame Interventionen in den Welthandel. Dazu gehören - jeweils bezogen auf eine interventionsfreie Entwicklung - die Energiepreissteigerung durch das Angebotskartell der erdölexportierenden...