NEW YORK The world economy is being battered by sharply higher energy prices.

The 1992 exchange rate crisis then tipped the balance.

And no approaching government debt crisis in the core economies can be seen when tracking government interest rates.

The current oil price crisis had led to the quest for new and renewable sources of energy.

Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

So far, the country has not experienced a debt crisis, and interest rates remain exceptionally low, at around 1 .

For example, in January 1974, when the first world oil crisis began, oil prices doubled in just days.

But the behavior of consumer prices in the post 1980 crises is fundamentally different from that seen in the 1930 s.

(b) The UNIDO financial statements are prepared on the historical cost basis of accounting and have not been adjusted to reflect the effects of changing prices for goods and services.

Because consumer prices fell faster than wages, the welfare of those who remained employed rose in the Great Depression.

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The 1992 exchange rate crisis then tipped the balance. Once Europe s exchange rate system blew up, the southerners argument that Europe could not afford to postpone creating the euro carried the day.

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None of these measures was uncontroversial nor did they prevent the impact of today s global food price inflation.

The fallback in bond prices does not yet portend a repeat of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980 s or the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990 s.

Because crude oil is priced in US dollars, and the dollar has depreciated against the euro, European consumers have gotten off relatively easy from rising energy prices.

Inflation was on the rise before the recession of 2008 struck, mainly because of spiking commodity prices.

The food price crisis of two years ago served as a wake up call, and has created an opportunity to revisit existing agricultural policies.

It was well worth the cost.

The irony is that the crisis of 1997 1998 was one in which a particular system of exchange rate pegs failed when capital flowed out.

As soon as the Fed had achieved its inflation fighting goal, however, it would end the liquidity squeeze. Asset prices and incomes would return to normal.

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Perhaps another occurred in 1998, when the Fed lowered interest rates in the face of what appeared to be an impending global financial crisis.

The overall cost increase is mostly the result of the weakening of the United States dollar, inflation and post related cost adjustments.

WASHINGTON, DC The eurozone crisis unfolded primarily as a sovereign debt crisis mostly on its southern periphery, with interest rates on sovereign bonds at times reaching 6 7 for Italy and Spain, and even higher for other countries.

True, the US Federal Reserve has tried to prevent a recession by cutting its interest rates. But the Fed cannot endow the banks with new equity capital and prevent a credit crunch.

For countries seeking re entry into international financial markets after the debt crisis, higher real interest rates and a stable exchange rate were prerequisites.

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First, high household debt means that if interest rates rise, as they do in a normal recovery, households will find themselves strapped.

ROME The prices of many staple foods increased dramatically during 2007 2008, creating a food crisis for many poor and developing countries.

The downturn was not caused by a liquidity squeeze, so the Fed cannot wave its wand and return asset prices to their pre recession configuration.

And, because eurozone banks hold a substantial part of their assets in the form of eurozone sovereign bonds, the sovereign debt crisis became a potential banking crisis, worsened by banks other losses, owing, for example, to the collapse of housing prices in Spain.

It was also true, however, that the proliferation crisis had become urgent.

Urgent action is needed, as the recent financial and economic crisis, following hard on the heels of the food price crisis, is believed to have set back progress on poverty reduction even further.

Economic activity is thus even more volatile than commodity prices, and much of the gains made in a boom unravels in the bust that follows.

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This cost would be spread over several years.

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Moreover, California s crisis is more than an economic one.

Furthermore, the eurozone crisis does not have the characteristics of a currency crisis.

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