Excerpt from An Analysis of the Unctad Integrated Programme for CommoditiesA great many developing countries depend on a very few export commodities for the majority of their export earnings. Consequently, the greater these countries' trade is as a percentage of their gross national product, the more vulnerable their entire economies and economic development plans are to fluctuations in world prices for their exports. A wide variety of remedies have been offered for price instability in the past. They include commodity agreements which establish buffer stocks, export quotas, and domestically, the monopoly of support prices, acreage allotments, marketing quo tas, and the like.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.