Sentence examples for commodity revenues from inspiring English sources

But the combination of commodity revenues and investors seeking safety in Canadian assets has caused the currency to take off.

Unlike some authoritarian jurisdictions, Turkey is not a rentier state that can rely on commodity revenues to buy the political loyalty of its citizens.

Over the same period however the average reserve coverage of imports for Latin America and the Caribbean has increased by one month thanks largely to strong commodity revenues and capital inflows.

Foreigners, who in the past have played their part in skimming Congo's commodity revenues, could make amends by helping to keep things clean.Congo is one of the world's hardest countries to govern.

"Small farmers are often net buyers of food and so are hit hard by rising food prices but are not in a position to take an advantage of short term commodity spikes". Investment Banks, such as Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have relied on commodity revenues as one of the drivers of recent profits, given the slowdown in credit and equity markets.

The first kind is traditional stabilization funds intended to smooth the volatility of commodity revenues.

Goldman's trading division suffered, with fixed-income, currency and commodity revenue falling 36%.

That means governments who spend the commodity revenue well -- on "public goods" like primary education, basic health and safety.

By now you are thinking: "If the institutions of government cannot be trusted with commodity revenue, should we not try to fix them instead of bypassing them?" True, and good progress is being made in getting civil society to participate in the management of public funds -- Ghana is an African leader in that.

These crops are of extreme importance across the world's tropical and sub-tropical regions, contributing to both food security and export commodity revenue, with a global annual production in excess of 97 million tonnes (FAOSTAT 2009).

Russia is expected to have a fiscal deficit of around 8.0% this year, after a surplus of 8.0% the year before – a combination of spending, banking bailouts, tax cuts, and a decline in oil and commodities revenues, says Roland Nash, head of research at Renaissance Capital in Moscow.