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Selected Bibliography of Published Market Reports covers various sectors, products and services of possible interest to developing countries and economies in transition of markets in Africa, Asia...

This is a directory of databases accessible online or through other electronic media, giving product, market, trade and economic information. Each entry gives host, type and category of information...

The 2017 Commodities and Development Report investigates the transmission channels through which commodity dependence affects micro- and macro-level development outcomes, examines long-term commodity...

This directory contains contact information for the following: ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, operational trade points, trade associations, chambers of commerce...

Smallholder farmers constitute the largest contingent of the poor and yet they produce more than 80 per cent of the world's food, in value terms. Though there are marked differences by country and...

The Commodities and Development Report 2012, released during the 13th session of UNCTAD, shows that developing countries suffer from high prices for commodities and food, in particular Least Developed...

This report highlights pathways to economic diversification in commodity-dependent developing countries in an environment where decarbonization of the global economy has become the overarching...

This study examines current trends in tourism and agriculture in Caribbean countries and the strategy for linking them in order to facilitate their future development. Increased linkage between...

This thesaurus is intended to be used for trade information services in developing countries for bibliographical description and indexing of information materials and sources in both printed and...

Commodity dependence is a trap: once a country is commodity dependent, it is difficult to develop a productive sector out of commodities and export non-commodity products. This publication argues that...

This report explores key aspects of the two-way relationship between commodities and climate change, discusses the concept of natural resource conversion and explores its application to renewable and...

This Directory includes government ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, chambers of commerce in principal business centres and/or federations of chambers of commerce...

This directory contains contact information for the following: ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, operational trade points, trade associations, chambers of commerce...

This document gives a general regional overview of Caribbean economies in 2006, based on preliminary data and focused on the CARICOM economies, with the exception of Haiti. It contains individual...

The purpose of this study is to take stock of the regulatory coordination among the NAFTA economies on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and to identify ways to move forward to advance market...

This paper explores the important link between nutrition, gender and poverty in the Caribbean Sun region. The paper illustrates the central role that women play in the nutrition of their children and...

This paper examines the events that led the global economy to the current crisis. It starts by looking at the current debate about the causes of this crisis, listing the elements most explanations...

The aim of this document is to present an analysis of debt by using a consistent stock-flow model and to apply it to the Caribbean case. The document is divided into four sections presenting the facts...