The release of this year's global economic prospects finds the world economy at a crossroads. Markets all over the world are engulfed in a global economic crisis, with stock markets sharply down and volatile, almost all currencies having depreciated substantially against the dollar, and risk premiums on a wide range of debt having increased by 600 or more basis points. Commodity markets too have turned a corner. Following several years of increase...
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2009/01/01
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Global economic prospects 2009 : commodities at the crossroads
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Baffes,John; Mitchell, Donald; Riordan, Elliot (Mick); Shaw,William; Streifel,Shane S.; Timmer,Hans.
Global economic prospects 2009 : commodities at the crossroads (English). Global Economic Prospects Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/161041468333306103