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

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez's dataset provides evidence on the impact of country-specific commodity terms-of-trade shocks on economic growth. The data covers developing and emerging countries at aggregate, country-specific, and disaggregated commodity category levels. The dataset is 5.5 KB in size, stored in XLS format, and was last updated on March 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Testing the 'terms-of-trade disconnect puzzle' based on country group-level data
• Analyzing country-specific 'blessing' or 'curse' effects from commodity price shocks
• Modeling the differential impact of shocks to metals, energy, food, and agricultural raw materials terms-of-trade
• Investigating the short-run versus long-run effects of statistically significant commodity shocks

Strengths

• Data is disaggregated by commodity categories including metals, energy, food, and agricultural raw materials.
• Dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation.
• Specific analysis covers both aggregate and country-specific levels.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez via figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains compiled economic indicators and analysis results from the described research paper.

Time Range

Time range is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 17:28:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers developing and emerging countries.