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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.
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.

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Product Packaging The Secret to Selling a Commodity Product
In the world of marketing, perception is reality. You can use that to your advantage if you sell a commodity product. This article gives you a good example of how to package a commodity product for higher profits.

Business Tip 2: Follow The Money
When asked, virtually all executives we interview complain that their margins are shrinking. This is a concern since our market is a global, hyper competitive commodity and price driven, margin battering place. How you made money last year may not make you money this year.
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.
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.

Premier Internet Marketing Education – Why It’s Imperative For You To Learn Internet Marketing
An internet marketing education is rapidly becoming the most valuable commodity in today’s global economy. Getting the internet marketing education you need, in order to leverage the internet, is becoming the most prized skill set you can own.

Selling Yourself Short? How to stand-out without lowering your price
Is what you do for a living perceived by potential customers as being a mere commodity; more or less the same as others in your profession? When that happens, customers revert to the easiest differentiator – price. The outlook gets worse as you realize that somewhere in the global economy there is likely someone offering similar products or services for a cheaper price. And with the internet it’s easier for your customers to find them. What’s most frustrating is when you know your products and services are indeed different, but customers don’t seem to get that and put you in the same category as everyone else.

Millennium Development Goals need sound SMEs = More Jobs = Less Poverty
Due to the global economic crisis more than 60 million more people, among them millions of small- and micro entrepreneurs, primarily in the less developed countries will be in poverty in this year 2010.Many of the achievements in recent years made to facilitate business of SMEs in the world, to reduce poverty in less privileged economies have seriously been jeopardised by shrinking demand for SMEs export products, increasing prices for energy and food, falling commodity prices, significant reductions in foreign investment and a general liquidity shortage. The strong interdependence among the worlds' economies made this a literally global economic crisis and human tragedy.
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.
Global Citizenship in the 21st Century
A perspective from a young person about global citizenship and how it will affect leadership at a global level. Having in mind that many entrepreneurs are coming together locally to build global products/businesses, it's important to understand where the world is moving.

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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