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Commodity Prices and Growth in Aftica

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Deaton, A.

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In this paper, I briefly review the literature on commodity prices as it touches on African economic development; fuller accounts are given in Gersovitz and Paxxon, Deaton and Miller and Collier and Gunning. In the next section, I provide some data that documents who exports what, and what has happened to the world prices of the relevant commodities.

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Paper provided by Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School - Development Studies in its series Papers with number 186.

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Keywords: PRICES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EXPORTS

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E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
O10 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
O55 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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