He won plaudits for his stint at BHP Billiton and has a deep knowledge of commodities, in which Temasek is underweight.
He started soliciting donations of food, applying his knowledge of commodities in a state where warm weather allows nearly year-round farming with three annual crops from the same field.
He had an encyclopedic knowledge of commodities, picked up while nosing around the BSE library.
As if those pursuits weren't enough, 3dStockCharts plans to apply its graphics knowledge to commodities, futures and bonds.
And knowledge, unlike commodities, makes a fairly permanent impact on whomever receives it, even by chance.
We need to provide parents and caregivers with essential knowledge and commodities that can save the lives of their children".
In this environment, the greatest challenge for governments and agencies is to bring basic life-saving knowledge and commodities into the home - treated bednets to protect against malaria, Oral Rehydration Solutions to treat diarrhoea, simple education on personal hygiene and breastfeeding.
Uncertainty is thus, an important commodity in the knowledge business, a commodity that can be traded for gains in the other essential characteristics of systems by which everyone is represented.
Understanding feasibility takes time as well as a lot of local knowledge, two precious commodities in the world of global health policy.
The survey highlighted substantial disparities in the status of children and women and their access to essential knowledge, services and commodities depending on where they live (urban or rural, different provinces), their ethnicity (ethnic minorities or majority, Thai-speaking or non-Thai speaking) and their socio-economic status (poor or rich, more educated or less educated).
