Maw Cheng Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 10718273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maw Cheng Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maw Cheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Primary Commodity Prices, Manufactured Goods Prices, and the Terms of Trade of Developing Countries
The authors revisit in this article the empirical foundation of the alleged secular decline in the prices of primary commodities relative to those of manufactures. They use a newly constructed index of commodity prices and two modified indexes of manufactured good prices, and find that from 1900 to 1986 the relative prices of all primary commodities fell on trend by 0.5 percent a year and those of nonfuel primary commodities by 0.6 percent a year…
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Primary Commodity Prices, Manufactured Goods Prices, and the Terms of Trade of Developing Countries
The authors revisit in this article the empirical foundation of the alleged secular decline in the prices of primary commodities relative to those of manufactures. They use a newly constructed index of commodity prices and two modified indexes of manufactured good prices, and find that from 1900 to 1986 the relative prices of all primary commodities fell on trend by 0.5 percent a year and those of nonfuel primary commodities by 0.6 percent a year…
Barter (1 work) · China (1 work) · Commodity (1 work) · Consumption (sociology) (1 work) · Developing country (1 work) · Economic Growth and Productivity (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · International economics (1 work) · Macroeconomics (1 work) · Market Dynamics and Volatility (1 work)