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STABILZATION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY MARKETS

Introduction
1. International trade in primary commodities
2. The desirability of price stabilization
3. International arrangements and export earnings instability in practice
4. A stochastic model of the optimum buffer stock
5. A model of commodity market speculation
6. Interactions between private speculation and buffer stock agencies in commodity stabilization
7. Commodity reserve currency systems and multi-commodity buffer stock schemes
8. Copper: the genesis and negotiation of an international commodity agreement
9. Cartels
10. UNCTAD: Its role