This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from the financial sector reform and strengthening initiative...
This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from the financial sector reform and strengthening initiative...
This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from the Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening...
This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from the financial sector reform and strengthening initiative...
This study brings together reliable and consistent data on the mining sector. It analyzes tin mining activities over the past eighty years, and includes production and price data. It provides details about...
Whereas models have generally been developed for perfectly competitive and monopolistic markets, this paper presents a spatial equilibrium model based on assumed oligoplistic market behaviour, characterized...
This paper compares the linear complementarity programming (LCP) investment model with the linear programming (LP) investment model, using the bauxite-alumina-aluminum industry as an example. The differences...
Due to the change in demand for tin, tin plate and aluminum, it is often questioned whether the pricing policies of the tin and tin plate industries have contributed to material substitution against tin...
Linear programming (LP) and quadratic programming (QP) have been broadly applied to analyze commodity- and sector-related issues. Linear complementarity programming (LCP), which encompasses LP and QP as...
This paper presents a model that solves the interrelationships between price fluctuations of light non-flat steel products and scrap markets. The model is developed as a linear complementarity programming...
Because of increasing oil prices since 1974, a geographical restructuring of bauxite processing is under way in a wholesale manner. Since sources of low-cost electricity have been largely exhausted in...
A detailed review of the worldwide concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) industry is presented. Rebars are the most popular steel product in both industrialized and developing countries. In 1978, the market...
Mathematical projections for steel consumption in 1978 through 1985 are offered for the United States, Japan, the European communities, other developed countries, developing countries, and centrally planned...