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III.b. E-Commerce and Primary Commodity Markets: E-COMMERCE AND SMALL ENTREPRENEURS
Most low-income developing countries continue to be primary commodity exporters (including oil, gas and other minerals, and agricultural products). Thus, short of wholesale diversification into manufactures and services, their immediate interest is in how e-commerce may affect competitiveness in their traditional export markets.
Local Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and Subsaharan Africa: Networks and Linkages to the Global Economy
For much of the past decade, the world has applauded the striking development performance of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Despite the setbacks caused by the present financial crisis in Asia, the rapid structural transformation and improvement in the standard of living in these three countries remains a powerful testament to the benefits of a strategy emphasizing industrial exports. African countries have tended to remain commodity exporters, and while Africa has remained largely untouched by the "Asian flu", the continent also missed out on the benefits of engagement with the global market.

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Local Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and Subsaharan Africa: Networks and Linkages to the Global Economy
For much of the past decade, the world has applauded the striking development performance of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Despite the setbacks caused by the present financial crisis in Asia, the rapid structural transformation and improvement in the standard of living in these three countries remains a powerful testament to the benefits of a strategy emphasizing industrial exports. African countries have tended to remain commodity exporters, and while Africa has remained largely untouched by the "Asian flu", the continent also missed out on the benefits of engagement with the global market.
African Economic Performance in 2004: A Promise of Things to Come?
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies still lack proper “shock-absorbers” to withstand internal (e.g. drought and floods, political instability, HIV-Aids, etc.) and external (e.g. volatility of commodity prices and exchange rates) shocks alike. They remain strongly vulnerable. In this context, creating the conditions for the development of indigenous drivers of economic activity (starting with a thriving local private sector) is a top priority.
III.b. E-Commerce and Primary Commodity Markets: E-COMMERCE AND SMALL ENTREPRENEURS
Most low-income developing countries continue to be primary commodity exporters (including oil, gas and other minerals, and agricultural products). Thus, short of wholesale diversification into manufactures and services, their immediate interest is in how e-commerce may affect competitiveness in their traditional export markets.
120 Billion Reasons to Sell the Yen
Last year, one of the few financial instruments that was headed to the moon was the Japanese Yen. Since then, things in Japan have started to unravel. GDP has declined and exporters are suffering. Shorting the Yen vs the US dollar will prove to be profitable during 2009.

Top Salespeople Avoid Commodity Selling
If your pushing products/service you may be turning your product/service into a price driven commodity. With small changes in how you approach, talk and present can take you out of the price driven commodity race.

Fiat Money vs. Commodity Money
As the world economies have embraced fiat money over commodity money we stand on dangerous ground. United States debt and World debt have reached record proportions. This crippling debt sees no foreseeable end and the roots can be traced to the twentieth century shift of thought between fiat and commodity money.
Fiat Money Vs Commodity Money-A Raging Debate
Are you looking to become involved in the discussion surrounding fiat money vs. commodity money? Many people are trying to learn more about this discussion as countries around the world are running up debt. America is not exempt from this either as seen by the trillions currently owed by the United States government. Commodity money is currency backed by a tangible object. Up until the mid-20th century, the American dollar was backed by gold.

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