However, a bank’s business model will also be accorded great significance in a dynamic stress test, which will follow the rather static balance sheet assessment. The main promise of euro area policy-makers is that taxpayers will no longer have to foot the bill for ailing banks. Some politicians say no more taxpayers’ money will flow at all.
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011–20 indicates that prices may be higher in real terms over the five years 2015–20, relative to the levels prevailing during the five year period 1998–2003 by 40 per cent in case of rice, 27 per cent for wheat, 48 per cent for maize and 36 per cent for oil seeds.