Year of publication 2004

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Place of publication روما، ايطاليا ;

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Pages 55

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Publisher منظمة الأغذية والزراعة ;

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Category Flagship

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ISBN 9256051338

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Series title حالة أسواق السلع الزراعية

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Technical developments that increase productivity and reduce costs mean that the long-term trend in real agricultural commodity prices on international markets is gradually downwards but that trend is dominated by significant short-term variability. Many developing countries, and especially the least developed countries, continue to depend on just a few agricultural commodities for the bulk of their export earnings. For them, commodity price variability has a strong impact on incomes, employment and government revenues, compromising macroeconomic planning and development efforts more generally. However, developing countries are also as a group increasingly reliant on food imports.

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Language Arabic

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• Chinese
• English
• French
• Spanish

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