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Peer review meeting on UNCTAD Commodities and Development Report 2017: Commodities Markets, Economic Growth and Development


30 June - 01 July 2016
Palais des Nations, Room XV, 2nd Floor, Door A11
Geneva
, Switzerland

The purpose of the meeting is to review the preliminary outline and draft material that will form the joint UNCTAD-FAO Publication entitled "Commodities and Development Report 2017: Commodity Markets, Economic Growth and Development."

After the commodity price boom of the 2000s and a prolonged period of excessive price volatility, commodities prices started a downward trend in 2011.

The publication will focus on the role of commodities in development, focusing particularly on commodity dependence and the role of commodity price trends and fluctuations in economic growth, development and poverty.

For this Report, UNCTAD and FAO have prepared a series of background working papers on thematic areas and case studies.

The work focuses on:

  • Commodity dependence and human development (J. Nkurunziza and K. Tsowou)
  • Long-term movements of commodities prices and revisiting the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis (D. Hallam)
  • Simulation of the impact of commodities prices on growth and poverty based on a Computable General Equilibrium model (CGE) (M. Kuiper et al, LEI).

This analysis is complemented by a series of case studies that focus on the role of specific commodities on economic growth, poverty, and social development.

These case studies are not limited to commodities that give rise to commodity dependence in the traditional sense (i.e. represent a large share of export revenues in a country).

Food staples are also included and the macro and micro-economic channels through which they affect growth and poverty are explored.

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Co-organizer(s):
FAO, Trade and Markets Division
Sponsor / funding:
FAO

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Commodities Commodities

Contact

Janvier D. Nkurunziza, D. Phil
Chief, Commodity Research and Analysis Section (CRAS)
Special Unit on Commodities
Tel: +41 22 917 4546
Email: Janvier.Nkurunziza@unctad.org