Finance & Development articles

Recent articles from Finance & Development

Pricey commodities.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
March 1, 2008... WITH prices for oil, nickel, tin, corn, and wheat hitting record highs in recent months--building on dramatic increases since their lows of 2000--it s time to ask just how long this boom will last and how economies will fare. Certainly, commodity producers and countries that export...

The SARS story.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... Congratulations on a first-rate global governance issue (December 2007). In "Governing Global Health," David Bloom highlights the experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and reports how "concerted action... quickly brought it under control," and "agencies put aside their...

Failed "scheme".(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... The question posed to Joe Cerrell, Helene Gayle and J. Stephen Morrison, and Tore Godal, "Is the Global Health System Broken?" (December 2007), assumes that a "system" exists. At best, the current global health delivery efforts can be labeled a sporadic, chaotic, and inadequate scheme. A...

Lax regulation in subprime crisis.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... Thank you for your excellent and clear explanation of the subprime mortgage problem ("Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis," December 2007). It sorted out many questions I had. However, there were some matters related to this crisis that I wish Randall Dodd had included in his analysis, such...

Oil trade and the WTO.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... Uri Dadush and Julia Nielson's "Governing Global Trade" (December 2007) provides a valuable account of most of the key issues facing the multilateral trading system. However, I find it disappointing that the authors failed to discuss the desirability of bringing the governance of...