BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- More Chinese cities have seen month-on-month declines in the prices of both new and secondhand homes, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday. The NBS said in a statement on its website that mo...
High food prices have pushed an estimated 44 million more people into poverty in the past year, according to the World Bank. France says taming food price volatility is one of its major goals as current head of the Group of 20 leading and emerging ec...
With food prices at or near record highs, agriculture ministers from the Group of 20 major economies will be meeting for the first time next week in Paris. Critics say one factor putting pressure on food prices is the use of food crops to produce bio...
03 The Definition of Price Prices determine how resources are to be used.(价格决定多少资源被使用) They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers.(它们也是有限的产品和服务...
A wave of foreclosures and a glut of unsold homes pushed U.S. housing prices down in March. Tuesday's report from the closely-watched Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 U.S. cities was 3.6 percent below the same month a year earlier. High un...
Sierra Leonean President Reduces Fuel Prices In a nationwide broadcast over state radio and television, President Ernest Bai Koroma has reversed a 27-day increase in the price of fuel. On May 1, the country changed from an imperial system of measurem...
Number of Bicyclers Soars Along with US Gas Prices With gasoline prices prices in the United States hovering around $1 per liter, the number of bicyclers is increasing, especially in cities, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. Sales of road bikes...
A study by the Asian Development Bank finds that domestic food prices in many regional（地方的，区域的） economies have risen on average 10 percent in early 2011. Xianbin Yao, director general of the Regional and Sustainable Development Depa...
The U.S. government says it is going to monitor the sharply rising gasoline prices in the country to see if anyone is profiting illegally(非法地) . The country's top legal official, Attorney General Eric Holder, said Thursday that officials from s...
Kenyans Outraged Over Rising Fuel Prices Discontent is rising in Kenya's public and private sectors over the record-setting price of fuel. With ongoing unrest in North Africa and border clashes in northern and southern Sudan, the price of fuel is rea...
