2011
(1) UNCTAD Commodity Development Report (UCDR)
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The UNCTAD Commodities and Development Report aims to be the flagship report on commodities published by UNCTAD. The UCDR will be a bi-annual series, with its first edition issued in January 2012. It will contain about 120 pages and aims to bring to a wider audience balanced economic analysis of important issues in the field of commodity trade as they pertain to energy, mining, minerals and metals, food and agriculture.
Each edition of this bi-annual report will contain a comprehensive, yet accessible, discussion of a selected topic of major relevance to policy-makers on commodity trade and development in Commodity Dependent Developing Countries (CDDCs).
The 2012 issue of the UCDR is analytical, topical and provides many interesting insights resulting from an in-depth analysis of how different commodities or commodity groups have been affected over the last decade by the commodity price boom, the ensuing crisis, and the emerging recovery; and what the implications are in terms of commodity-based development. The UCDR, in rejuvenating the debate on commodities should help to identify new policy options and facilitate dialogue amongst development partners about how to generate and sustain economic development in CDDCs. |
(2) UCDR Background document n°1
(3) UCDR Background document n°2
(4) UCDR Background document n°3
(5) UNCTAD Commodity Policy Review
The Commodity Policy Review aims to be published every two years with a first edition in February 2012. The CPR aims to provide a thorough and objective evaluation of a country’s commodity sector. In about 70 pages, the CPR aims to provide an analytical review of a country’s, commodity policy as it pertains to agricultural or non-agricultural commodities, commodity trade and institutions, sub-sectoral commodity specific economic analyses, commodity exchange, financing, diversification and sectoral regulations. The Commodity Policy Review provides a strategic analysis which is tailored to country specific commodity sector needs.
(6) General Assembly paper
(7) Contribution to the WESP
2011
(1) UNCTAD Special Unit for Commodities working paper series on commodities and development: Agricultural markets
- To come: Do Remittances reduce vulnerability to climate variability in West African Countries? Evidence from panel vector autoregression
- To come: Unraveling the underlying causes of price volatility in world coffee and cocoa commodity markets
(2) UNCTAD Special Unit for Commodities working paper series on commodities and development: Extractive industries
- To come: Climate Change: Selected Policy and Legal Issues for the Extractive Industry