Stockpile and Accessibility of Strategic and Critical Materials to the United States in Time of War, Part 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 |
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agricultural Argentina Benjamin Graham buffer stock capital cent changes Commercial Policy Commission Committee commodity agreements commodity markets commodity unit consumer consumption cooking and plumbing cotton currency demand devaluation Division of Commercial dollar domestic Economic and Social economic development effects export prices exporting countries finance fluctuations foreign trade governments GRAHAM Havana Charter hollowware import unit values Imported commodity income increase industrial countries instability International Commodity International Monetary Fund international trade investment KNORR manufactured measures ment modities monetary natural rubber operation output paragraph period price level price movements prices of primary primary commodities primary producing countries problem proposals raw materials rayon recommendations relation relative price reserve currency resolution rise scheme second quarter Senator MALONE Social Council Southern Rhodesia stability statistical sterling sterling area synthetic rubber Table terms of trade tion trend under-developed countries unit value indices United Kingdom United Nations WAUGH wheat yarns
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Page 66 - Let me be frank in saying that the United States seeks the kind of dollar which a generation hence will have the same purchasing power and debt-paying power as the dollar value we hope to attain in the near future.
Page 66 - The introduction of the precious metals for the purpose of money may with truth be considered one of the most important steps toward the improvement of commerce and the arts of civilized life ; but it is not less true that, with the advancement of knowledge and science, we
Page 22 - below.) (2) Consideration by the Fifth Committee The Fifth Committee, at its 372nd meeting held on 10 December 1952, considered the financial implications of the resolution proposed by the Second Committee concerning the financing of economic development through the establishment of fair and equitable international prices for primary commodities and through the execution of national programmes of integrated economic development
Page 159 - to provide for the expansion of the production of a primary commodity where this can be accomplished with advantage to consumers and producers, including in appropriate cases the distribution of basic foods at special prices; to assure the equitable distribution of a primary commodity in short supply.
Page 130 - of these countries with a view to reducing the existing disparity between their standards of living and those in the highly industrialized countries ; (b) Without prejudice to the recommendation contained in subparagraph (a) above, their governments should give serious consideration to all other aspects of the problem of undue fluctuations in the terms of trade
Page 24 - in an adequate, just, and equitable relation to the prices of capital goods and other manufactured articles so as to permit the more satisfactory formation of domestic savings in the countries in the process of development and to facilitate the establishment
Page 14 - to appoint an interim coordinating committee for international commodity arrangements to keep informed of and to facilitate by appropriate means such intergovernmental consultation or action with respect to commodity problems, the committee to consist of a chairman to represent the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, a person nominated by the
Page 15 - Recommends that the members of the United Nations continue to accept the principles of chapter VI of the Havana Charter for an International Trade Organization as a general guide in intergovernmental consultation or action with respect to commodity problems. The
Page 18 - in the countries in the process of development and to facilitate the establishment of just wage levels for the working population of these countries with a view to reducing the existing disparity between their standards of living and those in the highly industrialized countries
Page 48 - the volume of trade in primary commodities including measures aiming at the maintenance of a just and equitable relationship between the prices of primary commodities and the prices of manufactured goods in international trade,