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The official rationale was that eggs and sperm are not commodities, but gifts from a fertile couple to an infertile one.
For economies that have been barely holding on since the recent commodities boom ended, this is a worrying, if not terrifying, prospect.
Russia’s annual exports (mostly oil, gas, and other commodities) are worth almost $600 billion, while annual imports total almost $500 billion.
Little wonder, then, that we are now witnessing a significant correction in equity, credit, and commodities markets.
Backed by $3.8 trillion in currency reserves, China has provided infrastructure investment in exchange for commodities, thereby becoming the world’s largest provider of financing for developing countries, with the China Development Bank already offering more loans than the World Bank.
There can be too much production of some commodities - say, pollution generating steel - and too little production of others - like research that advances knowledge.
The same can probably be said of various commodities, including oil, demand for which has been structurally underestimated.
As long as China and India maintain their insatiable appetite for commodities, Brazil’s exports will finance today’s consumer boom.
In my research on organ trafficking, I have entered some of these shadow markets, where body parts from the poor, war victims, and prisoners are commodities, bought or stolen for transplant into affluent ill people.
Most South American countries are heavy commodity exporters, and the Asian crisis drove down world market prices for a wide range of commodities, including oil, copper, and agricultural products.
After the start of the Asian crisis, and with the fall in commodities prices, markets began to anticipate currency devaluations in the region.
These countries were vulnerable because of the falling commodities prices and the overvalued currencies.
Its people were first treated by the slave trade as mere commodities, necessary for economic growth elsewhere.
When slavery was abolished, the terms of partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.
Because of new sources of supply, advances in energy technology, and environmental constraints, oil is now operating under a regime of competitive pricing, like other commodities do.
The main exports of Argentina and Indonesia – agricultural commodities – were far less responsive to currency depreciation.
Prices for many commodities have doubled over the past couple of years.
Some politicians also complain about speculators who, more and more, are trading commodities on complex and growing markets that allow them to bet on whether, say, future demand from emerging markets is likely to outstrip growth in future supply.
If “speculators” are bidding up today’s commodity prices because they realize that future generations are going to want commodities, too, isn’t that a healthy development?
High prices for commodities today mean more supply for future generations, while at the same time creating an incentive to develop new ways to conserve on consumption.
At that time, it was often argued that price spikes for petroleum or other commodities were somehow “extraneous” to the system, and not a reflection of the real basis of monetary policy in the industrial countries.
In showing how economics could remain stuck in an “underemployment” equilibrium, Keynes challenged the central idea of the orthodox economics of his day: that markets for all commodities, including labor, are simultaneously cleared by prices.
Since around 2005, the prices of most major commodities have soared.
Prices for oil, coal, copper, gold, wheat, maize, iron ore, and many other commodities have doubled, tripled, or risen even more.
Some have attributed the rise to bubbles in commodities prices, owing to low interest rates and easy access to credit for commodity speculation.
Growing world demand for primary commodities, especially in China, is pushing hard against the physical supplies of global resources.
Latin America in the Second Machine AgePANAMA CITY – At the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Panama City, business and government leaders will discuss the economic challenges facing the Western Hemisphere, especially how to support inclusive growth in the wake of the commodities bonanza that endured for the better part of the last decade.
For a region that arrived late to the Industrial Revolution, this is not a trivial question – especially at a time when many Latin American economies are facing daunting challenges, stemming from the end of the commodities boom.
This relative prosperity lasted until the second oil shock of 1979, when global stagflation depressed prices for the primary commodities that comprise the Ivory Coast’s narrow export base, while rising interest rates increased the cost of servicing the debt contracted by the Houphouet regime.
BRAC’s community health workers, for example, work entirely on a micro-franchising basis, making their money from margins on sales of basic commodities like de-worming medication, anti-malarial drugs, and contraceptives.
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