By Todd Moss - This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz The World Bank’s Shanta Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale in yesterday’s Guardian Poverty Matters blog write: Except for Botswana, the track record of Africa’s mineral and hydrocarbon exporters is sobering. While Africa’s central banks are today better equipped to deal with currency appreciation, and its civil society more [...]
By David Wheeler - As we all know, the answer has nothing to do with experience, intelligence or global scrutiny, and everything to do with the answer to this question: How would she do on the Daily Show? Fortunately we already have the answer, from April, 2009. For those who missed it. The verdict’s in: Mais oui, absolument!
By Ben Leo - This post is co-authored by Vijaya Ramachandran Last week, the G-20 agriculture ministers meeting in Paris issued a communiqué calling for the World Food Programme to develop hedging strategies to purchase food. In a little-noticed section towards the end of a 24-page document, the ministers stated: We invite the multilateral, regional and national development banks [...]
By Lawrence MacDonald - The IMF announced today that French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has been chosen as the new managing director—the first woman to lead the institution in a selection process that for the first time had an element of competition. With the selection process complete, we have closed the CGD IMF leadership selection survey, which in the [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - This is a joint post with Connie Veillette The G20 agriculture ministers seem to agree: they’re all for food security, as long as it doesn’t cost anything. The communiqué from last week’s summit in Paris has lots of nice rhetoric and some good ideas, but no resources to implement them. In some cases, new priorities [...]By Todd Moss - CGD had the honor and privilege of hosting Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—the first elected female head of state in Africa—on June 23. At the event, President Sirleaf set a hugely ambitious goal of being aid-free within ten years. Given that aid currently accounts for more than half of GDP, this would imply serious increases [...]
Earth Day Network Intern - Shela Suh
read moreBy Ben Leo - This is a joint post with Todd Moss We are saddened today with the news that our friend and colleague Stephen Everhart was killed yesterday in Baghdad. Steve was in Iraq working to introduce a new university business curriculum, part of his life’s work to expand economic opportunities around the world. We both got to [...]By Todd Moss - The world is a complex unpredictable place. Private firms, with the help of creative financial markets, have developed a range of risk management tools to mitigate, price, and share risk. Nancy Birdsall and I argued years ago that the innovation of Wall Street could be better applied to problems in developing countries. Colleagues Vij Ramachandran and [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Next week could be a big week for trade policy, or, more likely, yet another disappointment. The World Trade Organization’s Trade Negotiating Committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to see whether there is support for an “early harvest” package that, in reality, will likely be all that a decade of negotiations under the Doha [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Friday , June 17, 2011 UNITED STATES CORN FACTS One bushel of corn is 56 pounds . That means U.S . farmers produce an average of more than 9,000 pounds of corn per . acre If U.S . farmers used crop production practices from 1931 to produce an amount of corn equivalent to the 2008 crops , it would require 490 million acres an area more than the state of . Alaska The U.S . produces about 40 percent of the world’s corn using only 20 percent of the total area harvested in the world .