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What affects the supply of oil? How important is the weather in determining grain prices? Why has the price of copper skyrocketed? This unique book analyses the economics of key commodity groups, including energy, agriculture and metals. It examines the supply/demand fundamentals of several major and minor commodities, physical characteristics, production and consumption patterns, trade flows and pricing mechanisms. It also explains the main tools used to hedge price risk, such as futures, opt...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registra...

This authoritative report looks at the market reforms and the changes to law and commercial practice being instituted in Turkey as it prepares for EU accession talks. It assesses the current investment climate and the risks and opportunities for foreign investors in Turkey and provides an invaluable up-to-date guide to commercial law, accounting, taxation, banking and investment and finance regulations.

A Basic Guide to International Business Law is an introduction to those parts of European and international law that are relevant to business. Having read this book, students will come away with a broad understanding of the international rules of law within the EEC, institutional rules of the European Union, international contract law, rules of competition and the four freedoms within the EEC. The edition includes student friendly features, such as summaries of statements and references to rele...

This journal, published twice a year, provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, information and data on all aspects of economic and social development issues and concerns facing the region and to stimulate policy debate and assist in the formulation of policy. It provides a scholarly means for bringing together research work by eminent social scientists and development practitioners from the region and beyond for use by a variety of stakeholders. Over the years, the J...

This Journal publishes empirically based, policy-oriented articles intended for policy makers, academics and researchers. The articles analyze development issues and problems relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific Development Journal is issued twice a year.

Seven years of data for approximately 184 countries and two sets of world and area summaries; world and area trade as seen by the reporting countries and by the partner countries to those transactions.Three sections--World and Area Tables, Memorandum Tables, and Country Tables--constitute the framework for the data. The latter show current information on the value of imports from and exports to their most important trading partners. Similar summary tables are presented for the world, industrial...

Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency.This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult...

Approximately 184 countries and two sets of world and area summaries; world and area trade as seen by the reporting countries and by the partner countries to those transactions.Three sections--World and Area Tables, Memorandum Tables, and Country Tables--constitute the framework for the data. The latter show current information on the value of imports from and exports to their most important trading partners.Similar summary tables are presented for the world, industrial countries, and developing...