After running a current-account deficit for most of the previous three decades, Brazil has had a surplus for five years also thanks to robust commodity prices.Emerging Europe, however, is flashing red, with widening current-account deficits, rising inflation, soaring bank lending and property bubbles.
The arithmetic would look less robust if commodity prices were to take another lurch downwards.
Its economy — driven by soaring prices for commodities, robust Chinese demand for raw materials and a domestic consumption boom spurred on by expanding credit — grew 7.5 percent last year, its highest rate since 1986.
Third, global economic growth led by American consumers has sired robust demand for commodities.
These markets require strong facility inputs, such as skilled health workers, complex clinical protocols to ensure proper use of commodities, robust logistics systems to ensure commodities and equipment remain continuously available at health facilities, and local health budgets.
Specifically, the paper proposes a robust technique to commodity optimal portfolio selection, in a liquidity-adjusted value-at-risk (L-VaR) framework, and particularly from the perspective of large portfolios that have both long and short positions or portfolios that consist of merely pure long trading positions.
Some companies are almost bragging about their ability to lower costs and be robust at current commodity prices.
Successful health interventions that deliver products to clients in the developing world require robust and predictable commodity supply chains.
Fueled by low interest rates, sound fiscal policy and robust demand for its commodities, Brazil is a darling of emerging markets these days.
While other countries in the emerging markets recovered quite well starting in 2010, thanks to stimulus packages and robust China demand for commodities, India became a "gasping elephant" as an HSBC analyst famously called it in 2012.
Those in Argentina and Brazil did extremely well, as those economies were buoyed by robust demand for their commodity exports from other emerging economies, especially China.
