Investing - General & Miscellaneous, Risk Management, Commodities, Futures - Investments, International Business - General & Miscellaneous, Investing - Strategies
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Overview
This book provides detailed information about financial instruments for managing external commodity price risks, creating awareness of the institutional constraints that must be removed to allow full access to these instruments, and illustrating the kinds of technical assistance and education needed to enable good use of the instruments in developing countries. It indicates the importance of improved commodity risk management in developing countries and identifies the role financial instruments can play in managing commodity price risk, providing access to external finance, and lowering credit risk. It describes how domestic schemes to stabilize commodity prices work and the experience that developing countries have had with such schemes. This book presents application of financial risk management instruments within the context of traditional domestic price stabilization schemes, further demonstrating the complementarity of the two. The financial instruments that are available for external risk management are discussed, focusing on instruments that manage commodity risk. In addition, the book discusses some of the practical and regulatory constraints to using commodity risk management instruments. The second part of the book contains case studies that are drawn either from the needs assessment surveys or from analysis and are intended to demonstrate the purpose, benefits, and costs of particular instruments or hedging strategies.Editorials
Booknews
Since 1990 the International Trade Division of the World Bank has begun to assist developing nations in using financial instruments to manage their exposure to volatile prices. This volume presents a series of case studies on the design and application of techniques to manage commodity risk in the handful of countries in which the World Bank's initial efforts have been concentrated--primarily Colombia, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea, and certain countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Other cases analyze the newly established futures exchange in Hungary and the possibilities for tariff-based commodity price stabilization in Venezuela. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
March 1, 1994
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages
466
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780801846625