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Commodity Markets, Institutional Support Measures and Challenges for Exporting Countries

In: Global Development Fifty Years after Bretton Woods

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  • Alfred Maizels

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The markets for the traditional commodity exports of developing countries have undergone a dramatic change since the early 1980s, with serious adverse effects on the real incomes of the majority of commodity-exporting countries. Real commodity prices (that is, nominal commodity prices expressed as a ratio to prices of manufactures exported by developed countries) have been on a downward trend so severe as to constitute a phenomenon not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. By 1993, real commodity prices had fallen to about 50 per cent below the 1980 level, and were some 20–25 per cent below the 1932 level, which was the bottom of the interwar depression. Recent World Bank projections indicate only a small recovery in commodity prices, with a rise of 10 per cent between 1993 and 2000, prices in the latter year being projected at still substantially below the 1980 level by almost 50 per cent (World Bank, 1994).

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  • Alfred Maizels, 1997. "Commodity Markets, Institutional Support Measures and Challenges for Exporting Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Roy Culpeper & Albert Berry & Frances Stewart (ed.), Global Development Fifty Years after Bretton Woods, chapter 13, pages 280-305, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25570-2_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25570-2_13
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    Cited by:

    1. Lee Robinson & Alice Nicole Sindzingre, 2012. "China’s Ambiguous Impacts on Commodity-Dependent Countries: the Example of Sub-Saharan Africa (with a Focus on Zambia)," Working Papers hal-04141046, HAL.
    2. Lee Robinson & Alice Nicole Sindzingre, 2012. "China’s Ambiguous Impacts on Commodity-Dependent Countries: the Example of Sub-Saharan Africa (with a Focus on Zambia)," EconomiX Working Papers 2012-39, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.

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