Commodity Exports and the Adding-up Problem in LDCs
Author: Maurice W. Schiff
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 38
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Author: Maurice W. Schiff
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Takamasa Akiyama
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolicies designed to address the regional adding- up problem in Sub-Saharan Africa -- such as a region- optimal export tax -- generate unequal benefits among countries. Further, few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have sufficient market power to influence commodity prices in the long run. Export taxes may prove beneficial for some countries but, at certain levels, transfer resources from smallholders to government with limited welfare gains.
Author: Maurice Schiff
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 33
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nanae Yabuki
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis Gerard Adams
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe commodity problem, development goals, and policies; Review of previous studies of the impact of the commodity problem on developing-country goal attainment; An integrated econometric approach to the commodity problem and economic development - preview, country and commodity selection, and country sketches; Macroeconometric models for project countries; Microeconometric models of the primary-commodity-producing sectors; Econometric models of international commodity markets; The impact of fluctuations in international commodity markets on goal attainment in developing countries; The impact of secular movements in international commodity markets on goal attainment in developing countries; Policy responses to the commodity problem; The commodity problem, goal attainment, and policies in developing countries: conclusions.
Author: Roman Grynberg
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0191528560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single commodity for a large share of export earnings. This reliance inevitability exposes countries to the risk of export earnings instability as a result of price shocks and, perhaps even more significantly, the falling purchasing power of exports over the long run due to declining real prices. Presenting for the first time a complete analysis of the issues surrounding commodity prices and development, this book is the culmination of three years of research commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat to look at various aspects of commodity prices. The problems faced by commodity dependent developing countries are formidable. Although diversification is the most appropriate response to the problem of the secular decline in commodity prices, long-term transformation in the economy can be a slow process and its success will depend on a host of factors such as the development of human resources, institutional capacity building, poverty alleviation, and appropriate domestic policy and environment. By granting increased aid flows and debt relief, and providing assistance to encourage production of non-traditional export items, the international community can play a proactive role in the development of the commodity dependent poor countries. Only concerted efforts both at the domestic fronts of these countries and via co-operation extended by the international community can help mitigate the problems of the world's most vulnerable economies.
Author: Henry Brodie
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander J. Yeats
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLabor -intensive goods are the developing countries' strongest export items -- and the United States is the chief import market for these goods. What's more, the industrial countries can expect increasing competition in the 1990s in clothing, footwear, leather products, wood manufactures, and some primary metal manufactures.
Author: Will Martin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 43
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Many policymakers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. Martin examines four changes that reduce this dependence: (1) accumulation of capital and skills; (2) changes in protection policy, particularly reductions in the burden of protection on exporters;(3) differential rates of technical change; and (4) declines in transport costs. Developing countries as a group have made enormous progress in diversifying their exports away from resources in recent decades, a development that appears to have been aided by accumulation of capital and skills and by dramatic reductions in the cost of protection to exporters, but slowed down by technological advances that favored agriculture. This paper--a product of the Trade Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the links between trade and economic development"--World Bank web site.
Author: Machiko Nissanke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-01-20
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0230274021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfred Maizels' work on commodity trade and prices documented trends in a major area of international economic relations. This book elaborates the ideas in the tradition of Maizels' contributons, and discusses and extends these theories in relation to current problems.