Improving the Management of the Commodity Sector

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(i) To review the commodity sector assessment and project profiles

(b) Continuing the diversification of the commodity sector and enhancing its competitiveness in developing countries that are heavily dependent on commodities

VIII. PROPOSED APPROACH TOWARDS A FUND FOR DIVERSIFICATION OF AFRICA apos S COMMODITY SECTOR

(b) Strengthening the partnership between the public and private sectors for the development and diversification of the commodity sector

(d) Helping develop Africa apos s human and institutional capacities in the commodity sector. Functions

(b) Continuing the diversification of the commodity sector and enhancing its competitiveness in developing countries that are heavily dependent on commodities

Market concentration has effects on other players in the distribution sector and suppliers of goods.

It would strengthen the commodity sector and foster economic links between various sectors.

A vibrant rural sector generates local demand for locally produced goods and services.

1. The collapse of Africa apos s commodity sector is one of the host of adverse effects the continent is confronted with.

But depression in the construction sector and unemployment among its ex workers would be balanced by exuberance in the manufacturing sector, rising prices for manufactured goods, and long hours and high wages for manufacturing workers

II. ISSUES RELATED TO THE DIVERSIFICATION OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE

The proposal for a diversification facility for Africa apos s commodity sector should be viewed in this wider context.

The report shows that meaningful action in the commodity domain is feasible, and that there is ample scope for commodity sector projects and programmes, mostly built on partnership approaches, which can reduce poverty in a cost effective manner.

With the majority of the world's poor dependent on commodity production and trade and spending a large part of their meagre resources on commodity consumption, there is a need for a wide, multi pronged approach to commodity sector issues.

Jobs are moving from construction (and related occupations) into tradable goods and services production (and related occupations).

The real problem is that many analysts had exaggerated the size of the luxury goods segment in emerging markets.

Any effective programme of poverty alleviation has to address the problem of supply capacity in the commodity sector.

While in the long run this dependency needs to be reduced, in the short run it is necessary to extract the maximum development contribution from these commodity resources, both to improve the direct development impact of commodity production, processing and trade and to generate resources for growth and diversification.

3. Undertaking of the assessment of the commodity sector and the potential for increased processing on the basis of annotated terms of reference by overall coordinator and national counterparts.

The need to diversify the African commodity sector has been reaffirmed in all the Secretary General apos s reports dealing with the question.

UNRWA is required to route its shipments of humanitarian goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip through the Karni crossing, except for construction materials, which enter the Gaza Strip through the Sofa crossing.

Funding is provided for policy oriented analysis of the links between policies and environmental effects of production and processing in the commodity sector and for a conceptual study on the internalization of environmental externalities in prices of commodities.

quot 6. Reiterates the importance of maximizing the contribution of the commodity sector to economic growth and development in commodity dependent developing countries, and in this respect stresses, inter alia, that

7. Reiterates the importance of maximizing the contribution of the commodity sector to economic growth and sustainable development in commodity dependent developing countries, and in this respect stresses, inter alia, that

1. Reiterates the importance of maximizing the contribution of the commodity sector to sustained economic growth and sustainable development, while continuing with diversification efforts in commodity dependent developing countries

Commodity exporters that have benefited from recent increases in prices and export volumes must maintain their efforts to diversify their commodity sector, as well as to generate higher value added in other sectors.

1. Takes note with interest of the report of the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the commodity situation, developmental linkages between the commodity sector and other sectors and actions required to develop such linkages in the context of diversification A 49 226.

Investment in equipment the key to strengthening productive capital in the tradable goods sector has generally suffered even more.

As Spain s tradable goods sector contracted in response to the expansion in Germany, it could respond in one of only three ways.

The report has three chapters improving participation in the supply chain improving supply capacity and improving management of the commodity sector.

However, since the turn of the millennium, the Government of India has instituted a programme of sweeping reform that has begun to yield tangible benefits throughout the commodity sector.

(a) The development of the African commodity sector through diversification programmes and projects utilizing local skills, initiatives and enterprise to the maximum extent

74. The international community too has much to do to assist diversification of the commodity sector in Africa.

Efforts are being made to encourage ways by which development of the commodity sector, including diversification, and environmental concerns could be made mutually reinforcing.

Developing countries must be helped to modernize their production and distribution systems, stabilize and increase their earnings and diversify their economies, particularly in the commodity sector.

3. Reiterates the importance of maximizing the contribution of the commodity sector to sustained economic growth and sustainable development, while continuing diversification efforts in commodity dependent developing countries

quot 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the commodity situation, developmental linkages between the commodity sector and other sectors, and actions required to develop such linkages in the context of diversification A 49 226.

But this time, credit expansion is not flowing into housing construction, but rather into commodity speculation and foreign currency.

Its experience shows that through appropriate approaches, it is possible to achieve great leverage in reducing poverty through commodity sector projects and programmes.

4. There is now a general agreement on most of these measures and more specifically on the need for diversification in Africa apos s commodity sector.

(a) Report of the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the commodity situation, developmental linkages between the commodity sector and other sectors, and actions required to develop such linkages in the context of diversification (A 49 226)

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