The prices of primary commodities had declined against the prices of manufactures, especially during the 1980s.

Not only has Africa remained commodity dependent, but it has fallen behind other developing regions of the world in exports of non fuel primary commodities.

Oil and other commodity prices are likely to fall further, and oil and gas production have already stagnated.

The initial American financial crisis barely touched Russia, but the global economic slowdown brought about a decline in oil and other commodity prices by more than one third since July, which was a big blow.

For example, 70 of Latin America s exports to China in 2010 were commodities, and 25 were goods manufactured from these materials, often with little added value.

The scarcity of primary commodities and damage from climate change in recent years contributed to the destabilization of the world economy that gave rise to the current crisis.

Asian countries, like the developed economies, have a tariff escalation system the higher the value added to primary goods, the higher the protection.

Research had shown that LDCs with an export specialization in primary commodities had significantly higher levels of poverty and were more likely to have unsustainable external debt burdens.

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1. Emphasizes the need for the developing countries that are heavily dependent on primary commodities to continue to promote a domestic policy and an institutional environment that encourage diversification and liberalization of the trade and export sectors and enhance competitiveness

She recognized the important role of trade for growth and poverty reduction in LDCs and noted the vulnerability of many of these countries as a result of their high economic concentration in primary commodities.

But primary product prices remain much more volatile than the prices of manufactured goods and services, causing large fluctuations in producers incomes. This exaggerates the effects of booms and busts.

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2. Recognizes that many developing countries are highly dependent on primary commodities as their principal source of export revenues, employment, income generation and domestic savings and as the driving force of investment, economic growth and social development

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2. Emphasizes the need for efforts by the developing countries that are heavily dependent on primary commodities to continue to promote a domestic policy and an institutional environment that encourage diversification and liberalization of the trade and export sectors and enhance competitiveness

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4. Emphasizes the need for efforts by the developing countries that are heavily dependent on primary commodities to continue to promote a domestic policy and an institutional environment that encourage diversification and liberalization of the trade and export sectors and enhance competitiveness

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Recognizing that many developing countries are highly dependent on primary commodities as their principal source of export revenues, employment, income generation and domestic savings, and as the driving force of investment, economic growth and social development,

Aside from importing basic goods, China exports manufactured goods throughout the region.

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The current economic recovery, driven largely by demand in the United States and southern and eastern Asia, was uneven, benefiting only oil and industrial raw materials without stimulating to any significant extent exports of commodities from Africa.

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