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Thus, many emerging markets’ growth rates in the next decade may be lower than in the last – as may the outsize returns that investors realized from these economies’ financial assets (currencies, equities, bonds, and commodities).
Add two billion Indian and Chinese workers to the global labor force, and the value of other means of production – particularly capital and commodities (for example, gold and oil) – is bound to go up.
If so, it would mean shifting from production of commodities to higher-value manufactured products.
But Africa’s export trade is still dominated by primary commodities.
Moreover, growing urbanization and other non-agricultural uses of land have reduced acreage available for food production, while agricultural land is increasingly used to produce commodities other than food, such as bio-fuels.
After all, these events don’t really explain why prices of other commodities often followed that of oil.
But no economics diploma is needed to understand that today's upturn results mostly from a fourfold devaluation of the ruble and big increases in prices for commodities such as oil.
Equally important, China imported a huge volume of commodities, thereby bolstering many African and Latin American economies, and purchased German cars and machines, enabling Europe’s largest economy to keep its regional supply chains humming.
With the price of oil and commodities also dropping, the risks of deflation and a growth slowdown far outweigh the threat of inflation.
The commodities that the US imports from abroad embody a significant amount of relatively unskilled labor, but they do not displace much unskilled labor in America.
Hence demand for commodities, which has been driven by emerging-market growth, has fallen sharply, and help decrease global inflation.
Some of the prices that increased were those of commodities that Brazil exports.
The increase in FDI inflows, access to sovereign debt, and sharp expansion of migrant remittances have all contributed to a shift in the revenue base away from commodities.
As China’s growth slows, so does its demand for oil and commodities, with severe effects for other emerging economies that depend on commodity exports.
Such efforts have bolstered global demand for commodities, while diversifying African economies and enhancing the productive capacity of domestic suppliers.
Prices of commodities – oil, energy, and minerals – have soared; corporate credit spreads (the difference between the yield of corporate and government bonds) have narrowed dramatically, as government-bond yields have increased sharply; volatility (the “fear gauge”) has fallen; and the dollar has weakened, as demand for safe dollar assets has abated.
For example, Chinese state-owned enterprises that gained access to huge amounts of easy money and credit are buying equities and stockpiling commodities well beyond their productive needs.
America’s hypocrisy – advocating free trade but refusing to abandon subsidies on cotton and other agricultural commodities – had posed an insurmountable obstacle to the Doha negotiations.
For Asia, which is relatively poor in resources compared to the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, the rising cost of commodities, driven in part by emerging-market growth, is a cause for concern.
Unlike other commodities, the price of water is very often a political decision, subject to the influence of interest groups that lobby for subsidies.
Just as the oil price fall sparked by 1997's ‘Asian’ crisis contributed to Russia’s default and devaluation of 1998, so soaring prices for oil and other commodities restored Russia’s debt service capacity this year.
But a downturn in prices is only a matter of time (indeed, for many non-oil commodities, it has already happened).
Dire warnings about Africa’s position as an exporter of raw materials to the UK and Europe assume that the full extent of cooperation between the two continents will forever be limited to commodities trading.
Moreover, because the services sector also requires fewer commodities and less energy, this transition will help China address its serious environmental problems.
Speculation on Africa's basic products and raw materials, which has driven down prices for most commodities over the last four decades, might be addressed by creating a mechanism that ties, for an agreed time, the prices of these items to those of industrial goods and services.
They bought commodities whose domestic prices were kept low by state regulation and resold them abroad shielded by export regulations.
The value of wares produced by this form of unskilled labor plummeted, but the prices of commodities that unskilled laborers bought did not.
There is something intuitive about the idea that when the Fed “prints money,” the money flows into commodities, among other places, and so bids their prices up – and thus that prices fall when interest rates rise.
First, high interest rates reduce the price of storable commodities by increasing the incentive for extraction today rather than tomorrow, thereby boosting the pace at which oil is pumped, gold is mined, or forests are logged.
Finally, high interest rates strengthen the domestic currency, thereby reducing the price of internationally traded commodities in domestic terms (even if the price has not fallen in foreign-currency terms).
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