Africa's role in the global economy is evolving as a result of new corporate strategies,
changing trade regulations, and innovative ways of overseeing the globalized production …

Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown
dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source …

Recent moves by the World Bank to devise market-based approaches for dealing with
commodity price risk provide a fresh impetus for research in the area of commodity futures …

This paper summarizes theoretical and empirical research on the roles and functions of
emerging derivatives markets and the resulting implications on policy and regulations …

Tropical agricultural commodities (henceforth agro-commodities) continue to play a major
economic role in many developing countries, especially in least developed ones. 1 On the …

This book traces the changing meanings of free trade over the past century through three
sugar treaties and their concomitant institutions. The 1902 Brussels Convention is an …

This paper is intended to contribute to a data-led and evidence-based point in view to the
discussion around living income for cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire–the largest …

The inability of individual developing nations to provide widescale commodity price support
and the continual renegotiation of international commodity agreements have engendered a …

As part of the Lome Convention the STABEX programme is one of the instruments of the
European Union's development policy. Its objective is to reduce the instability of the …

The Sugar Protocol, laid down in the Convention of Lome, has been an established
instrument of commodity policy for nearly 20 years. Its basic rule is that the EC imports at …