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After reviews of the history and politics of international commodity policy, the authors deal with three important compensatory financing schemes: the Compensatory Financing Facility (CFF) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the STABEX scheme of the EC-ACP Convention of Lomé, and the Cereal Import Facility introduced as an extension of the IMF’s CFF. Three commodity agreements, i.e. the International Coffee Agreement, the International Natural Rubber Agreement, and the International Cocoa Agreements, are then covered as are the commodity protocols for sugar and beef laid down in the Convention of Lomé. In a final section, the stabilization policies are compared and evaluated. The authors apply an ex-post approach when analyzing major commodity agreements and compensatory financing schemes. The measured impacts differ from those of ex-ante approaches based on models of a functioning price or earnings stabilization. A major reason is that existing policies were not strictly targeted at stabilization but contained strong redistributive elements as well. As a consequence, both compensatory financing and commodity agreements had only limited success in terms of stabilization, but individual exporting countries gained strongly from grant elements in compensation payments or from price-support elements in commodity arrangements. The book identifies the effectiveness of the implemented commodity policies from an international point of view as well as national interests in those policies.  Nearly 30 years later, volatile world commodity markets are still a major issue in the policy dialogue. Although topics, policy instruments and concepts have changed, this book remains a fundamental contribution to the study of international commodity policy. It will be of great interest to students of commodity policy and economic development and economists in national and international organizations dealing with market stabilization.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51201916403985,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201917092113,"sku":"NGR9781032459196","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032459190.jpg?v=1751174620"},{"product_id":"flammenphotometrie-book-roland-herrmann-9783662117507","title":"Flammenphotometrie","description":"1. Prinzip der Methode und Begriffsbestimmung Bringt man in eine Bunsenflamme gewisse Metallsalze, z. B. Kochsalz, so verursacht die verdampfende Substanz in der Flamme ein deutliches, im gew hlten Beispiel intensiv gelbes Leuchten. Andere Salze geben der Flamme andere Farben, z. B. f rben die Salze von Strontium und Lithium die Flamme karminrot, von Calcium ziegelrot, von Barium gelbgr n, von Kupfer smaragdgr n, von Kalium blauviolett, von Arsen, Antimon und Blei fahlblau bis fahlgr n usw. Diese Flammenfarben sind charakteristisch f r gewisse Kationen mitunter auch f r gewisse Verbindungen wie CuOH. Man verwendet diese Leuchterscheinungen daher oft als Hilfsmittel bei qualitativen chemischen Analysen. Beim gleich- zeitigen Einbringen von mehreren Metallsalzen versagen allerdings diese einfachen Methoden, weil das Auge das Gemisch mehrerer Farben nicht trennen kann. Mitunter liegen auch die charakteristischen Farben in einem Spektralbereich, in dem das Auge nicht mehr empfindlich ist. Betrachtet man nun das von einer mehrfach gef rbten Flamme ausgehende Mischlicht im Spektroskop, so sieht man ganz bestimmte, f r die einzelnen Elemente bzw. Verbindungen charakteristische Spektrallinien bzw. Banden (Anh ufung von Linien s. unten). Anhand von Spektrallinientafeln oder Tabellen kann man einige qualitative Aussagen  ber die Zusammensetzung der in die Flamme hineingebrachten Stoffe machen.  ber diese gen gend bekannten quali- tativen Verfahren soll hier nicht weiter gesprochen werden. Sorgt man nun durch geeignete Ma nahmen daf r, da  die Flamme  ber l ngere Zeit konstant brennt, und da  die Substanzzufuhr zur Flamme ebenfalls konstant bleibt, so ist die Intensit t dieser beobachteten Spektrallinien bzw. 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