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Resources: not depleted, but expensive

Newsitem | 14-03-2011

Current high prices of food, oil and many other resources are indications of increasing scarcity. This scarcity, however, has little to do with stock depletion. Badly functioning markets and wrong policy reactions play a particularly important role.

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