primary commodity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandcommodity
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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commodity
noun[C]
uk/kəˈmɒd.ə.ti/us/kəˈmɑː.də.t̬i/
a substance or product that can be traded, bought, ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandcommodityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The oil crisis and the downturn inprimarycommodityprices soon exposed the export-dependent economy and government reliance on patronage.
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Brunner (2002) for example, establishes a significant connection between climate variability and worldprimarycommodityprices, world consumer price inflation, and world economic activity.
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Future research is also required on the economics ofprimarycommodityprice stabilization programs applied to the fisheries sector and fisheries management in small open economies.
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Ochieng (2005) has argued that whilst these innovations were successful in integrating smallholders into commercial agriculture asprimarycommodityproducers, they were not geared towards agricultural value-addition or value innovation.
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Our extreme dependence on external trade exposes us to the full force of the rise inprimarycommodityprices.
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This applies not only to sugar but to oil and everyprimarycommoditylike copper, cocoa and wheat.
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But theprimarycommodityfor all building is land.
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We can expect the price ofprimarycommodityexports to fall further.
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The cuts in capital expenditure reflect, mainly, a drop inprimarycommodityprices, and it is very difficult to overcome the implications of that.
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All these things have a powerful effect upon theprimarycommoditymarkets of the world.
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It is generally conceded that the pivotal point in the world's difficulties is the disparity betweenprimarycommodityand retail price levels.
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You guarantee prices; you index them and you do that for theprimarycommoditycountries in particular.
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If the costs of a majorprimarycommodityare increasing, in principle we are doomed to move from a primary to a tertiary economy.
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The last two years have seen the dramatic reversal of worldprimarycommodityproduction and, in particular, of agricultural production.
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We have only one rawprimarycommodity, coal, but they have a large number of raw primary commodities.
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Does he think that there is no connection between a fall inprimarycommodityprices and a recession of business activities?
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Whatever has led up to it, countries, particularlyprimarycommodityproducing countries, are more prosperous.
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The second problem is the slow-down in world economic growth which is leading inexorably to the erosion ofprimarycommodityprices on which those countries' economies depend.
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The line once carried both freight and passengers, with iron ore being itsprimarycommodity.
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Theprimarycommoditytransported by the line is cement.
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