Primary Commodity Prices
Subtitle: Economic Models and Policy
Contributors: L. Alan Winters (Editor); David Sapsford (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 30, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521385503
Subjects: International trade; Commodity futures; Commodities And Commodity Exchanges; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Econometric models; Congresses; Commodities; Development - Economic Development; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Commodity futures--Econometric models--Congresses
First sentence: Primary commodities constitute over 40 per cent of world trade and World Bank figures for 1986 reveal that of the 42 countries with a per capita GNP of less than $1,600, 20 were more than 70 per cent dependent on just two commodities for export earnings.