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Raw materials prices remain low

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While there has been little change in prices for industrial commodities since last autumn, the price of oil continued its downward trend to the end of the year. Many commodity exporting countries are suffering under the burden of low prices. Will the long-awaited recovery begin this year?

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  1. Cf. UNCTAD: Trade and Development Report, 1998, p. IV.

  2. Cf. IMF: World Economic Outlook, October 1998, p. 76.

  3. Cf. K. Matthies: Commodity Prices Continue to Fall: in: INTERECONOMICS, Vol. 33 (1998), No. 5, p. 247.

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  1. Hamburg Institute for Economic Research (HWWA), Hamburg, Germany

    Klaus Matthies

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Matthies, K. Raw materials prices remain low. Intereconomics 34, 101–104 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927841

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