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To fill it, the government printed money, effectively devaluing the currency and exacerbating inflation from rising prices for imported goods.
But will Chinese demand for commodities be enough to sustain high prices for the region’s exports in the coming years?
This is why, in order to maintain food prices in the medium term, other countries or regions will need to start reducing poverty at rates similar to that of China in the recent past.
It seems unlikely, but without them it is difficult to foresee high prices for commodities – and food, in particular – over the next two decades.
Iran could also interfere with oil traffic, leading to a spike in prices and delivering a further blow to American and global economic recovery.
Record-high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.
To make the new shares attractive to private investors, Greece’s “troika” of official creditors (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) approved offering them at a remarkable 80% discount on the prices that the HFSF, on behalf of European taxpayers, had paid a few months earlier.
They may mitigate the consequences of peak prices, but they are inadequate to avoiding the recurrence of shocks, which can be accomplished if the G-20 acts on eight priorities.
Rising prices directly affect these countries’ ability to feed themselves at an acceptable cost.
Fourth, many cash-strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable, owing to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.
Notwithstanding a small recent uptick, most forecasts predict that oil prices will remain at current levels for the long term.
Low oil prices will hit Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Oman, and war-torn Libya and Yemen before the richer countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Fortunately, the region is better positioned for a growth takeoff than it was in the 1990s, owing to major education and infrastructure investments that were made during the last decade of high oil prices.
Now that oil prices have plateaued, private investment is falling, domestic firms are idling, and unemployment is rising.
Some regimes will be tempted to stick with the status quo, hope for a recovery in oil prices, and crack down harder on civil society in the meantime.
Managing mixed economies that include state-owned enterprises and an inchoate private sector will require discipline, so that productive assets are not squandered, or privatized at fire-sale prices.
There is a resource crunch, epitomized by the rising prices of non-oil commodities over the last decade.
If the real trade-weighted value of the dollar falls by 25% over the coming decade, and the full effect of that dollar decline is reflected in import prices, the increased cost of imports would reduce the growth of US real incomes by about 0.4% a year.
Whereas regulators worry that the merger would lead to higher prices, AT&T argues that it is facing direct competition from tech giants like Netflix and Amazon, which both offer online video streaming and original programming.
Low-cost steel (provided at prices below the long-term average cost of production but at or above the marginal cost) may be a distinct advantage for other industries.
Excess capacity fuels downward pressure on prices, with negative externalities on indebted firms, which experience an increase in their real (inflation-adjusted) leverage.
Biofuel production likely increases atmospheric carbon, owing to the massive deforestation that it requires, while crop diversion increases food prices and contributes to global hunger.
Soaring energy prices, for example, have become a leading inflation risk.
But higher energy prices, by themselves, will not cause the ECB to pull the interest-rate trigger.
The key will be so-called “second-round effects” – whether growing crude prices lead to higher wage demands from trade unions.
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.
Before too long, Russia’s “managed” (read: authoritarian) modernization will also have to allow for the rule of law and a functioning separation of powers, or the country will remain dependent on oil and gas prices and mired in a brutal struggle for power, influence, and money.
Russia clearly believes that the current tight world energy market and high prices give it enough leverage over the West to maintain its current approach.
“Our government is going to set free-market prices just like yours.”
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