Rural Development

This is a joint posting with Peter Timmer Rice prices have continued to tumble this week amid reports that Cambodia is moving to ease export restrictions and other exporters may follow suit. This came after Japan's announcement that it would proceed with sales to the Philippines of 250,000 tons of r...

This post is joint with Tom Slayton, a rice trade expert and former editor of The Rice Trader It has been a busy week in the rice markets following CGD's release on Monday of our note about how to puncture a speculative price bubble that threatens millions of people with malnutrition and worse (see ...