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UNCTAD's package of commodity information services

Commodity trade requires a great deal of organized information.

At the international level, strategic information on commodity sectors enhances global transparency and improves commodity strategies and policies.

UNCTAD, having initiated pioneering work connecting market analysis with innovative tools to gather and disseminate strategic information and empower the stakeholders along commodity chains, has emerged as a key agency providing commodity information, market intelligence and knowledge management.

Many traditional reservoirs of information have disappeared, and the remaining commodity related sources of information are quite dispersed and not always well structured.

Recycling commodity revenue and managing macro level commodity related risks

Finally, better dissemination of commodity information could prompt the donor community to increase its support to the commodity sector through identification of key areas with potential for effective actions that promise quick results.

Nestlé scored highest on transparency, as they provide information on at least some of their commodity sources and audit systems.

Commodity prices fell, too.

Latin America s Commodity Windfall

Commodity prices d (percentage)

UNCTAD Commodity Yearbook 1993

Many commodity dependent economies were caught in a vicious circle whereby investments in commodity production did not generate adequate returns because of falling commodity prices.

212. UNCTAD other commodity conferences and commodity meetings Trade and Development Board decision 7 (I)

278. UNCTAD other commodity conferences and commodity meetings Trade and Development Board decision 7 (I)

196. UNCTAD other commodity conferences and commodity meetings Trade and Development Board decision 7 (I)

This type of gap, which exists in most developing countries, results from market failures, mainly asymmetries in accessing key commodity market information.

Again, a commodity for consumption.

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International commodity agreements or arrangements

Commodity (litres) 1,000 litres Total

Primary commodity prices weakened considerably.

Commodity prices are like this.

The World Commodity Survey is a recurrent publication providing unique and practical information on markets, structures and innovations for more than 80 commodities.

(f) To finance training activities, workshops and other ways of exchanging information and experiences in commodity diversification, with particular reference to successful cases.

The Fund is an intergovernmental financial institution exclusively concerned with commodity development issues and commodity development projects.

Greater participation by developing country producers, processors and service providers in the commodity chain can improve the returns to producers (particularly if producers are empowered through organization and greater information) and enhance the multiplier effect of commodity exports on economic growth.

International commodity markets are under stress.

United Nations commodity and other conferences.

III. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMMODITY DIVERSIFICATION

B. Global diversification and commodity market

Too bad. That's Casablanca's leading commodity.

In this respect, reference should be made in particular to the UNCTAD MICAS project, a computer based commodity analysis and information system for worldwide distribution.

Several countries are providing both trade data and industrial statistics information (commodity production and general industrial statistics) on diskette to the Statistical Division (UNSTAT 12).

The Global Implications of Falling Commodity Prices

After all, energy is a global commodity.

The Silver Lining in High Commodity Prices

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

Improving the Management of the Commodity Sector

Diversification facility for the African commodity sector

There were strong fluctuations in commodity prices.

How can measures to increase commodity price stability and returns from commodity exports contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals?