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Surely there is at least as much natural demand for commodity bonds as there is for credit-default swaps and some of the bizarrely complicated derivatives that are currently traded!
A multilateral agency such as the World Bank could play a critical role in launching a market in commodity bonds.
An alternative for some commodity exporters is to hedge their risk by selling on the futures market.
This principal-agent problem is much diminished in the case of commodity bonds.
If the international financial wizards can get together and act on this idea now, commodity exporters might be able to avoid calamity the next time the world price of their product takes a plunge.
For starters, the region’s commodity exporters, and particularly its oil exporters, were hit hard by the 2014-2016 slump in prices.
Today, eight of the region’s fifteen debt-troubled LICs are commodity exporters.
This should be coupled with economic diversification, for which the recent recovery in commodity prices provides wider scope.
Derivatives are contracts that derive their value from changes in a market, such as interest rates, foreign-exchange rates, or commodity prices.
Faster economic growth, rising incomes, and wealth redistribution over the past decade – fueled by sound macroeconomic policies, foreign investment, and rocketing commodity prices – have helped to reduce poverty rates by 13 percentage points, and extreme poverty by five percentage points.
Once foreign investment and higher commodity export prices are excluded from the growth calculations, Latin America’s recent economic performance barely exceeds its unexceptional historical average.
What saved Argentina over the last decade were highly favorable external conditions: sky-high global commodity prices and technological innovations that greatly increased farm yields.
With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina’s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly.
Rather, countries in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America – most notably Venezuela – have been hit very hard by plunging oil and commodity prices since 2012.
After a long and spectacular “bonanza” in commodity prices since the early 2000s, driven largely by China’s investment boom, many commodity exporters found themselves with historically high levels of foreign-exchange reserves.
For countries that had embraced more flexible exchange rates – Russia, Brazil, and Colombia, among many others – the initial reversal of oil and primary commodity prices ushered in a wave of currency crashes, while those that maintained more rigid exchange-rate arrangements experienced rapid reserve losses.
The second item on the agenda is a pull-back from quantitative easing in the US, which is subjecting the emerging economies to a flood of capital, rising commodity prices, inflation, and asset bubbles.
But while it is true that some global developments – especially falling commodity prices, and perhaps also slowing emerging-economy growth and rising financial volatility – may push down inflation, dollar appreciation will not, at least not in any meaningful way.
The decline in world commodity prices, led by crude oil, has made managing the national budget easier.
Second, Macri’s government reduced taxes on commodity exports, which had been important to Kirchner’s administration, and removed a number of import controls.
Reorienting production to domestic consumption would be difficult under any circumstances; a downturn in global trade, increasingly volatile commodity prices, and falling aid and investment flows don’t help.
Indeed, without international coordination, national policies will be ineffective, and it will be impossible to tame commodity prices or stabilize exchange rates.
China’s slowdown and prolonged recession in parts of Europe have weakened demand in global commodity markets, depressing growth in commodity-exporting countries like Brazil, Russia, and South Africa.
Making matters worse for the resource-rich emerging economies, commodity prices have plummeted since 2014.
After a prolonged period of accelerating demand growth, notably from China, governments came to regard high commodity prices as semi-permanent – an assumption that caused them to overestimate their future revenues.
Since the Great Recession, however, growth in global merchandise trade has stalled, mainly owing to anemic demand in the world’s major economies and plummeting commodity prices.
For another, it prevents developing countries from reaping the full benefits of rising commodity prices, though they gain no protection from price downturns.
Seed is also transformed in this way from being a renewable regenerative resource into a non-renewable resource and commodity.
Emerging-market demand has pushed up commodity prices.
Meanwhile, new energy-extraction technologies, combined with a softer trajectory for global growth, are having a marked impact on commodity prices, cutting deeply into the surpluses of commodity exporters from Argentina to Saudi Arabia.
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