Understanding economic growth is central to the study of development. Rural economic growth is an important aspect of economic growth. Historically, rural agriculture has employed most people in most countries...
Since the early 1980s, dramatic changes in export commodity markets, shocks associated with resulting price declines, and changing views on the role of the state have ushered in widespread reforms to agricultural...
Structural reform of the economies of developing countries has been in the forefront of development interest since the early 1980s. This interest stems from a recognition that the structures and institutions...
Because of an association with weak export and income growth, commodity dependence has long been considered a barrier to economic development. However, statistical analyses and case studies show that commodity...
The adding-up problem occurs when a country or group of countries significantly increases production of a commodity with a low price elasticity of demand relative to world production. In such a case the...
This case study of Sulawesi's cocoa market is a counterpoint to investigations of highly regulated markets - agricultural and otherwise. The Indonesian island's rapid expansion surprised the world cocoa...
This document pertains to boom commodity markets which can be a bane or a blessing. If commodity exporting countries adopt the wrong policies and strategies, they can leave their economies in worse shape...
This booklet focuses on the management of the commodity price volatility from the perspective of developing countries. It examines and contrasts government policies and institutional and marketing structures...
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa remain dependent on a few primary commodities -- coffee, cocoa, cotton, sugar, tea, and tobacco -- for a large share of export earnings. Because demand for these commodities...
The authors examine risk management options for Egyptian cottons, the export prices for which are volatile. They use regression analysis to establish whether Egyptian cotton's prices can be effectively...
This article presents an approach to evaluating pricing policies for perennial crops. A flexible computational model is developed, which incorporates important features of perennial crop production that...
The idea of an optimal export tax on a commodity is based on the assumption that by imposing a tax, a country can improve its welfare when it faces a downward-sloping demand curve for the commodity. The...
The main objective of this article is to analyze the impact of the International Coffee Agreement's export system on the world coffee market, focusing on increases in real export revenues (transfer benefits)...
This paper documents the difficulties various countries in sub - Saharan Africa have had with marketing and pricing systems, and shows how these systems have been caused or exacerbated by government controls...
Sub - Sahran African (SSA) countries have seen sharp declines in their shares of agricultural export markets. But their export dependence on the most important crops - coffee and cocoa - has increased...
Ex-post simulations of the global coffee model over the recent period of operation of the International Coffee Agreement's export quota system, (1981-86) show the following. The quota system had a stabilizing...
Coffee and cocoa are Cote d'Ivoire's two most important commodity exports, accounting for about 50 percent of total exports. Falling world prices and an appreciating currency have cut into sales of Ivorian...
This paper examines recent trends in the Kenyan coffee sub-sector and evaluates production and export prospects for Kenyan coffee under several scenarios. In evaluating the long-term prospects for the...
The model of the world tea economy described herein has a number of general features which are shared by other econometric commodity models. The stylized version of an econometric agricultural commodity...
Prospects for the world jute industry to the mid 1990's are analyzed to identify trends likely to follow the confusion in the jute market originating from the 1984/85 fibre supply crisis. Jute fibre is...