The prolonged economic difficulties since the late 1970s have thrown into sharp relief the structural changes in the world copper market since the mid-1960s and the resulting changes in competitiveness...
Cuba is the single largest sugar exporter and is reliant on sugar for some 70-80 percent of its total export revenue. Since 1960, Cuba's sugar exports have been distributed in the ratio of about 40:60...
One problem in assessing longer-term market prospects for any industrial raw material is the need to consider substitution by alternative materials. Until recently, aluminum and plastics have been the...
This study examines some problems in the market for natural rubber, one of the ten core commodities proposed for stabilization. The first part of the study is concerned with the specification, estimation...