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Russia extends its grain export ban
Russia will consider lifting its grain export ban only after the next year's harvest has been reaped, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. Mr Putin did not say when ...
Russia, Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister, Food prices, SovEcon, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
22 minutes ago
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UN calls meeting on food price concerns
The United Nations' food agency has called a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rise in global food prices. The announcement came after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir ...
Food, Russia, Food prices, Food security, Abdolreza Abbassian, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
23 minutes ago
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How to feed the world : The emerging conventional wisdom about world farming is gloomy. There is an alternative
THE world is planting a vigorous new crop: “agro-pessimism”, or fear that mankind will not be able to feed itself except by wrecking the environment. The current harvest of this ...
Brazil, Food, America, Club of Rome, Pakistan, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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U.N. Agency Calls Meeting on Spike in Food Prices
ROME — A U.N. food agency said Friday it has called a special meeting on the recent spike in food prices, responding to fears of a repeat of the shortages ...
Russia, ROME, Food, Food prices, United Nations, All keywords...
nytimes.com
1 day ago
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Strong Exports Lift Agriculture, a Bright Spot in U.S. Economy
Even as the broader economy falters amid signs of a weakening recovery, the nation’s agriculture sector is going strong, bolstered in part by a surge in exports, according to federal ...
USD, Agricultural products, Iowa, Omaha, Jason R. Henderson, All keywords...
nytimes.com
4 days ago
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U.S. Home Prices Rose 1% in June
Home prices in the United States rose in June for the third consecutive month amid a burst of home-buying due to tax incentives that have since expired. The Standard & ...
United States, Standard & Poor, USD, Seventeen, Las Vegas, All keywords...
nytimes.com
4 days ago
7.
How to feed the world : The emerging conventional wisdom about world farming is gloomy. There is an alternative
THE world is planting a vigorous new crop: “agro-pessimism”, or fear that mankind will not be able to feed itself except by wrecking the environment. The current harvest of this ...
Brazil, Food, America, Club of Rome, Pakistan, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
8.
Good Intentions, Bad Policy
Perhaps the single most important policy-related insight in economics is that changes in policies lead to behavioral responses. More generous unemployment insurance leads to longer spells of unemployment; implicit government ...
Economist, William Stanley Jevons, Britain, Economics professor, Edward L. Glaeser, All keywords...
economix.blogs.nytimes.com
1 week ago
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Share prices :
The MSCI world index, which tracks share prices in rich countries, hit its crisis-induced nadir on March 9th last year. Since then it has gone up by more than three-fifths. ...
MSCI World, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Straw man : High wheat prices reflect fires in Russia, not problems in world food markets
FOR a brief period it looked like “Food Crisis 2.0”, or another “great grain robbery”—the episode in 1973 when a Russian harvest failure sent commodity prices soaring. Spot prices for ...
Chicago Board of Trade, Russia, Food-price spike, Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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China Surpasses US as World's Top Energy Consumer
''The trend is undeniable that the Chinese energy consumption is growing very strongly -- which is very legitimate, by the way, considering their population -- and the energy from the ...
China, United States, Energy, Oil, International Energy Agency, All keywords...
nytimes.com
1 month ago
12.
India's impossible inflation
The Indian economic story has been marked in the last decade by outstanding success. The stock exchanges have outperformed leading indices worldwide, the demographics are favourable and the IT outsourcing ...
India, Retail, Gandhi, Farmer, Indian government, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 month ago
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Lloyd's adds its voice to dire 'peak oil' warnings
One of the City's most respected institutions has warned of "catastrophic consequences" for businesses that fail to prepare for a world of increasing oil scarcity and a lower carbon economy. ...
Peak oil, Insurance market, Oil, Insurance claims, China, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 month ago
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Emerging economies 'to enjoy food production boom'
The emerging economies of Brazil, India, China and Russia will enjoy an agricultural boom over the next decade as production stalls in Western Europe, a report says. Agricultural output in ...
OECD, United Nations, Food production boom, United Kingdom, Dairy products, All keywords...
news.bbc.co.uk
2 months ago
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Consumer prices drop for 2nd straight month
Consumer prices fell for the second straight month, extending a break for Americans' pocketbooks. Less expensive energy bills were the main factor pulling down prices.
US Federal Reserve, USD, WASHINGTON, Less expensive energy bills, Department of Labor, All keywords...
msnbc.msn.com
2 months ago
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