Documents et rapports
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Biofuels in Africa : opportunities, prospects, and challenges (anglais)
Biofuels offer new opportunities for African countries. They can contribute to economic growth, employment, and rural incomes. They can become an important export for some countries and provide low-cost...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 58438 Date du document: 24 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell, Donald
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Global economic prospects 2009 : commodities at the crossroads (anglais)
The release of this year's global economic prospects finds the world economy at a crossroads. Markets all over the world are engulfed in a global economic crisis, with stock markets sharply down and volatile...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 46820 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baffes,John,Mitchell, Donald,Riordan, Elliot (Mick),Shaw,William,Streifel,Shane S.,Timmer,Hans
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Global economic prospects 2009 : commodities at the crossroads (anglais)
The release of this year's global economic prospects finds the world economy at a crossroads. Markets all over the world are engulfed in a global economic crisis, with stock markets sharply down and volatile...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 46820 Date du document: 9 décembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baffes,John,Mitchell, Donald,Riordan, Elliot (Mick),Shaw,William,Streifel,Shane S.,Timmer,Hans
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A note on rising food prices (anglais)
The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4682 Date du document: 1 juillet 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell, Donald
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Considering trade policies for liquid biofuels (anglais)
This report addresses the issues associated with trade in liquid biofuels is a second Energy Sector Management Assistance Program report on biofuels, and part of a broader assessment of bioenergy undertaken...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 40238 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kojima,Masami,Mitchell, Donald,Ward,William A.
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Sugar in the Caribbean : adjusting to eroding preferences (anglais)
Sugar exporters of the Caribbean depend on preferential sales of sugar to the European Union and United States at prices that are two to three times the world market price. Without these preferences, sugar...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3802 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell, Donald
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Tanzania's cashew sector: constraints and challenges in a global environment (anglais)
cashews are an important export for Tanzania and an important source of income for small farmers in the southern coastal region. The sector has made a remarkable recovery since the near collapse of the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 31273 Date du document: 1 juin 2004 Auteur: Mitchell, Donald
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Sugar policies: opportunity for change (anglais)
Sugar is an important commodity in many countries and the source of about 7 percent of the world's calorie supplies. It accounted for 10 percent or more of total export earnings of 12 developing countries...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 32105 Date du document: 1 mars 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell, Donald
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Sugar policies opportunity for change (anglais)
Sugar is one of the most policy distorted of all commodities, and the European Union, Japan, and the United States are among the worst offenders. But internal changes in the E.U. and U.S. sugar and sweetener...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3222 Date du document: 1 février 2004 Auteur: Mitchell, Donald
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Managing commodity booms - and busts (anglais)
This document pertains to boom commodity markets which can be a bane or a blessing. If commodity exporting countries adopt the wrong policies and strategies, they can leave their economies in worse shape...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 17842 Date du document: 29 février 1996 Auteur: Varangis, Panos,Akiyama,Takamasa,Mitchell, Donald