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World cereal stocks being low, world cereal prices are rising steeply.

Instead, world oil prices have soared to 35 per barrel.

World sugar prices collapsed, and Haiti fell into deeper disarray.

A bad' year is when world steel export prices, FOB the foreign port, sell at less than 75 per cent of the US price.

A good' year is a period when world steel export prices, FOB the foreign port, are selling at about 80 per cent of the US price.

Additional supplies of oil to global markets will keep prices down or depress them further.

True, farm support policies in rich countries tend to depress world prices, along with the incomes of agricultural producers in developing countries.

As can be seen from Figure 2, world steel prices varied considerably during the period 1974 2004.

Moreover, world oil prices that had fallen to 10 a barrel started rising toward the stratosphere.

World oil prices crossed 40 a barrel in mid summer, and have since climbed to the mid 50's.

Russia s economy was stagnating even before the bottom fell out of global oil prices, and most experts expect energy prices to remain low for years.

The effects of high oil prices thus flow through to the economy without being moderated by the world's central banks leaning against the wind.

On average, world oil prices have not fallen below the stipulated 12.50 baseline since 1986.

High world oil prices and capital inflows are strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to exchange rate appreciation.

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But for most farm products, the phasing out of these subsidies is likely to have only modest effects on world prices at most a few percentage points.

Later, higher world oil prices provided a further boost to the economy, generating funds for investment and expansion.

This will reduce the world price of these fuels, inducing other countries to consume even more than they otherwise would.

World oil prices had fallen by almost half since mid June, and the ruble plummeted in December, finishing the year down by a similar margin.

High international oil prices, delays in aid disbursements, and incomplete fiscal adjustment continued to affect inflation rates.

Decisions made in Moscow can affect world energy prices, the future of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and the success of terrorists.

The global economy and the US economy, in particular is growing faster than expected, and world oil prices are above 100 per barrel.

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At the time, the Dow Jones industrial average of US stocks was trading at around 11,000, so the book s premise seemed outrageous. Certainly the timing was bad global stock prices began to collapse a few months later, and it took years for them to fully recover.

Certainly the timing was bad global stock prices began to collapse a few months later, and it took years for them to fully recover.

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Desperate for funds for reconstruction, that new regime could sell large amounts of oil, lowering global oil prices.

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World oil prices are de facto determined on the Arabian Peninsula and by the countries of the adjacent Gulf region, and this will not change anytime soon.

For starters, because relatively poor but large countries India and especially China were the engines of global growth, and were resource hungry, world oil prices soared.

Low commodity prices, lack of investment capital, the inability to secure access to world markets, and high unemployment and low productivity have contributed to the marginalization of millions of unfortunate persons.

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26 For example, public expenditures on health in the least developed countries in 2001 were only 4.3 per capita, or 1.9 per cent of their GDP, World Development Indicators, 2004.

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Chile s economy has performed well over the past two years, despite low world copper prices but its annual growth rate is nowhere near that of the previous 25 years.

Nuclear weapons, components, and materials in a region that is already volatile and violent, and that determines the world s oil prices, is an appalling scenario.

83. While it is likely that world agricultural prices may be slightly more stable as a result of the Uruguay Round, there is a question mark over food stocks.