Commodity Terms-of-Trade Shocks and Economic Growth in Developing Countries

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez's 2026 study analyzes the impact of commodity price shocks on economic growth across developing and emerging countries. The 5.5 KB Excel dataset provides evidence at aggregate, country group, and specific country levels, as well as for disaggregated commodity categories like metals and energy. Results explore the 'terms-of-trade disconnect puzzle' and show effects ranging from 'blessing' to 'curse' depending on the country and commodity.

Use Cases

• Modeling the short-run economic impact of commodity terms-of-trade shocks based on the described analysis.
• Comparing growth effects across different commodity categories (metals, energy, food, agricultural raw materials) as mentioned in the description.
• Investigating the 'terms-of-trade disconnect puzzle' at the country group level using the provided evidence.
• Analyzing heterogeneous outcomes ('blessing', 'curse', or 'negligible' effects) at the specific country level.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Explicitly covers disaggregated commodity categories (agricultural raw materials, food, energy, metals) as stated in the description.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez.

Collection Method

Likely contains aggregated economic indicators and analysis results from the described study.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 17:28:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Developing and emerging countries.