Escaping the commodity trap – is it time to realign Africa’s commodities?
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Escaping the commodity trap – is it time to realign Africa’s commodities?

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), commodity dependence increased over the last decade from 93 countries in 2008–2009 to 101 in 2018–2019. The latest revelation going as far as highlighting that the nominal value of world commodity exports reached $4.38 trillion in 2018–2019 which is a 20 per cent increase…