OECD Development Centre Policy Insights

ISSN :
2077-2599 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/20772599
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The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. OECD Development Centre Policy Insights is a series of policy-oriented occasional papers drawn from the Development Centre’s Work Programme. All titles are generally available in the two official languages of the OECD: English and French.
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In Favour of a Fund to Stabilise Commodity Exporters' Income You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Daniel Cohen, Thibault Fally1, Sébastien Villemot1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

Publication Date
01 May 2007
Bibliographic information
No.:
50
Pages
2
DOI
10.1787/243340034722

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Poor countries will remain vulnerable to external shocks from export prices or from natural disasters for some time. Indeed, the lowest income countries have an even higher incidence of such adverse events than other developing countries and tend to suffer larger damages when they occur.
Also available in: French