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APPENDIX I

CHARTS OF TIME SERIES OF SELECTED COMMODITY PRICES

Monthly prices in both nominal and real terms are collected from FAOSTAT and IMF sources for 18 commodities (banana, cocoa, coffee, tea, sugar, jute, sisal, cotton, rubber, palm oil, maize, rapeseed, rape oil, rice, soybeans, soy meal, sunflower meal and wheat). The World Bank MUVs is used to covert the nominal price to real ones. All prices are adjusted to reflect their respective commodity marketing season. The prices span from January 1970 to December 2000.

Banana real and nominal prices

Cocoa, nominal and real prices

Coffee, nominal and real prices

Cotton, nominal and real prices

Jute, nominal and real prices

Rubber, nominal and real prices

Sisal, nominal and real prices

Sugar, nominal and real prices

Tea, nominal and real prices

Maize, nominal and real prices

Palmoil, nominal and real prices

Rapeoil, nominal and real prices

Rice, nominal and real prices

Rapeseeds, nominal and real prices

Soybeans, nominal and real prices

Wheat, nominal and real prices

Soymeal, nominal and real prices


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