Documents et rapports
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Cocoa product price relationships (anglais)
The paper underscores the relevance of this analysis of the cocoa product markets by describing the evolution of trade in cocoa products and evaluating the prospects for cocoa processing and exports of...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8801 Date du document: 31 janvier 1988 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gbetibouo,Mathurin,Mehta, Kiri
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Factors affecting grains prices, 1970-1984 (anglais)
As grain prices went through a boom-to-bust cycle from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the factors contributing to these fluctuations became an important issue for agricultural trade. With that in mind...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8710 Date du document: 30 novembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell,Donald O.
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Energy demand in the US manufacturing sector (anglais)
The use of energy in the US manufacturing sector has been declining over the last two decades and the rate of decline has accelerated in the post-1973 period; the period of sharply-higher energy prices...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8705 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Imran,Mudassar,Najmabadi,Farrokh
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Kenyan coffee sector outlook : a framework for policy analysis (anglais)
This paper examines recent trends in the Kenyan coffee sub-sector and evaluates production and export prospects for Kenyan coffee under several scenarios. In evaluating the long-term prospects for the...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8703 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Auteur: Akiyama,Takamasa
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Investment policies for steel producing countries : an empirical analysis of the use of iron ore by major steel producing countries (anglais)
Based on the analysis by Stiglitz and Dixit on natural resources dynamics, this study proposes recommendations on potential strategies for increasing efficiency among steel-producing countries. It shows...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8702 Date du document: 1 mars 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Priovolos,Theophilos
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The impact of exchange rates and developing country debt on commodity prices (anglais)
This report analyzes the relationship between exchange rate movements and commodity prices. The paper focuses on the effects of changes in the U.S. dollar on primary commodity prices in respect of: (i)...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8604 Date du document: 31 mars 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sheldon,Christopher Gilbert
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Fiber optics and the copper industry (anglais)
One problem in assessing longer-term market prospects for any industrial raw material is the need to consider substitution by alternative materials. Until recently, aluminum and plastics have been the...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8603 Date du document: 28 février 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tan,C. Suan
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A framework for studying the supply response of perennial crops (anglais)
This paper develops a model of supply of perennial crops which is an alternative to the traditional Nerlovian model. It is argued that a cost-of-adjustment investment model in which capital is heterogeneous...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8601 Date du document: 31 janvier 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Trivedi,Pravin K.
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Import demand for grains : implications for U.S. agricultural policy (anglais)
Decreases in world import-demand for U.S. grain exports do not stem so much from the strength of the U.S. dollar and high U.S. loan rates as they do from other factors which exist in the importing country...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8505 Date du document: 31 décembre 1985 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell,Donald O.
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A world grains and soybeans model (anglais)
The Commodities Studies and Projections Division has recently completed the construction of global models of grains (wheat, rice and coarse grains) and soybeans markets. This paper describes in broad terms...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8507 Date du document: 31 décembre 1985 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mitchell,Donald O.
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Efficient market commodity price dynamics (anglais)
This paper examines the joint implications of private sector stockholding and futures market trading for commodity price dynamics. Speculative private sector stockholding links commodity prices over periods...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8504 Date du document: 31 décembre 1985 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gilbert,Christopher L.
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Modeling material substitution in the tin-tinplate-TFS complex (anglais)
Due to the change in demand for tin, tin plate and aluminum, it is often questioned whether the pricing policies of the tin and tin plate industries have contributed to material substitution against tin...
Type de document: Document de travail sur les produits de base Numéro du rapport: DWC8303 Date du document: 30 septembre 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hashimoto,Hideo