Dealing with Commodity Price Uncertainty

Abstract

This paper -- a product of the Commodity Policy and Analysis Unit, International Economics Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to investigate alternative price risk management and finance systems under market liberalization. Copies of the paper are available free from the World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433. Please contact Jean Jacobson, room N5-032, telephone 202-47.t-3710, fax [phone], lnternet address jjacobson(worldbank.org. October 1996. (44 pages) The Policy Research Working Paper Series dissemtnates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange o[ ideas about development tssues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers car O, the names of the authors and should be used and cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations. and conclusions are the authors' own and should not be attributed to the World Bank, its Executive Board o[ Directors, or any o[ its member countries