Sentence examples for Access to commodities from inspiring English sources

"For a very long time, the west was extremely privileged, by privileged access to commodities during colonial times, for example".

But these days China's ambitions are bigger than winning business, or seeking access to commodities, on the world's poorest continent.

Chinese companies have been taking advantage of depressed resource prices to buy stakes in producers and lock in access to commodities, particularly oil.

Meanwhile, China is rapidly increasing its lending in Latin America as it pursues not only long-term access to commodities like soybeans and iron ore, but also an alternative to investing in United States Treasury notes.

Mrs. Merkel last week told leaders of Germany's Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, a lobby group, that it was essential to deal with China's increased control of access to commodities essential for economic growth.

That kind of clout would lead to direct political and economic benefits: China would win access to commodities, profit-making opportunities for its companies and an increase in its international political leverage vis-à-vis the United States and Europe.

Instead, he shows, it was a process begun under the Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and subsequently continued, to grant lobbyists preferential access to commodity export licenses at a time when there was a gap between world prices and very low regulated domestic prices — allowing them to pocket a windfall.

Access to commodity, real estate and international funds is often sacrificed by many pure indexing strategies.

Second, it imposes new limits on gas and oil trading that will cripple independent producers' access to commodity markets".

"People want a different way to play the cycle and the business as a whole of mining, trading and selling commodities so this will definitely be a welcome addition in terms of a broader access to commodity markets," said Rob Edwards, managing director of metals and mining research at Renaissance Capital.

5, 6 One of the consequences associated with the inherent delays in paper-based reporting reports is frequent stock-outs of health commodities, which can deprive target populations of access to health commodities, potentially leading to an erosion of consumer confidence, demoralized health staff, and damaged credibility of health programs.