Food, Financial Crises, and Complex Derivatives : A Tale of High Stakes Innovation and Diversification

The 2008 food price crisis was an integral part of the financial crisis. In fact, the food price crisis was the second crisis in a chain of events that began in 2007 with the mortgage crisis, and culminated in the worst financial crisis since the G...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Songwe, Vera
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
BID
TAX
WFP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/11/15462067/food-financial-crises-complex-derivatives-tale-high-stakes-innovation-diversification
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10071