Market insecurity

Of these five, I will spend most of the time on the first and the last product cost and regulatory decisions. You have heard much about the others — unproven technology, environmental uncertainties, and market insecurity. 

The market cost barrier discussion leads directly into the subject of market insecurity and is closely related. In a completely free market, which is not the case for high Btu coal gasification, business executives must make a prediction of size and... 

The questions of market insecurity and market price reminds me of a study the ESCOE recently completed. We were asked to do a coal fuel cycle study. The study was an examination of all the possible ways that coal from a mine could be processed and transported to deliver energy to "the city gate." After many, many pages of looking at all of the alternatives and the best estimates of price that go along with these, we were asked if it was possible to reduce the study conclusions to a single sentence. The answer is "Yes. The cheapest way to use coal is to burn it."... 

Koning, N. Heerink, N. and S. Kauffman (2001) Food insecurity, soil degradation and agricultural markets in West Africa why current policy approaches fail.-Oxford Development Studies 29, 189-207. 

The political situation within OPEC member countries is complicated and dynamic. Price shocks caused by political unrest in oil-exporting countries have had severe economic effects on the global economy, including losses in gross domestic product (GDP) and increases in inflation and unemployment. Oil market stability concerns are rooted both in political volatility and infrastructure insecurity. Further uncertainty arises from the entry of new suppliers, especially Russia, into the market and their cooperation, or lack thereof, with OPEC. In terms of supply security, the hub-and-spoke oil transportation system in both importing and exporting countries remains vulnerable to attacks. Some suggest a... 

Market entry of fuel cell vehicles may thus coincide with the emergence of high cost petrochemical fuels, that is around 2015. Unless the timescales are brought nearer, the light vehicle sector seems to likely to become progressively more exposed to higher priced and increasingly insecure fuel supplies. Fortunately, the scenario for other areas of fuel cell applications is more optimistic. 

Industrial biotechnology as a whole, as well as the production of bioplastics, has given rise to an ongoing public, political and industrial debate on the competition between food, feed and industrial markets for agricultural raw materials, with wide-reaching implications. This has created a lot of confusion and insecurity within the bioplastics industry. For example, the... 

The private sector will benefit directly if the Millennium Development Goals are achieved by having access to a healthier and better educated workforce, a more stable investment climate, and a reduction in the business risks that accompany poverty-related problems such as global insecurity, climate change and ethnic conflict. It will also benefit from the vast new markets that will be created by drawing the 4 billion people that currently live on less than US 2 per day into economic life [22]. 

When in the 1950s, Bayer, BASF, and Floechst would reenter American business, they would not face an insecure American infant industry. Indeed and instead, U.S. businesses were robust and had expanded in Europe, displaying unprecedented new capabilities. The American chemical industry had come of age and seemed invulnerable. Markets were no longer divided. The results of numerous antitrust cases had made such earlier practices taboo. Moreover, the German triumph had been coal-based the new American chemical industry of the postwar era was oil-based. This... 

When programs do not have a negative impact on markets When nutrition interventions are needed to protect food-insecure people... 

Many people may remember the time when this drug was put on market in 1998. Every single mass medium seaned to report on the furors caused by the appearance of this wonder drug. It has become instantly a household name. It has been reported that 20-30 million American men suffer from some form of penile erectile dysfunction. More men young and old who were not physically disabled but felt insecure about their masculinity also welcomed this drug. 

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