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

Developing and emerging countries are the focus of this dataset, which analyzes the impact of country-specific commodity terms-of-trade shocks on economic growth. The dataset, created by Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez and last updated in March 2026, provides analysis at aggregate, country group, specific country, and commodity category levels. It is a 9.5 KB XLS file examining shocks for agricultural raw materials, food and beverages, energy, and metals.

Use Cases

• Testing the 'terms-of-trade disconnect puzzle' based on country group-level analysis mentioned in the description.
• Modeling country-specific 'blessing' or 'curse' effects of commodity shocks based on the mixed evidence described.
• Analyzing the relative impact of shocks to metals versus energy terms-of-trade based on the commodity category results.
• Investigating the short-run versus long-run effects of statistically significant shocks as indicated in the findings.

Strengths

• Disaggregated analysis across four commodity categories: agricultural raw materials, food and beverages, energy, and metals.
• Explicitly covers both developing and emerging countries.
• File size is 9.5 KB, indicating a concise and focused dataset.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

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 statistical analysis results from an economic research paper.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 17:28:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers developing and emerging countries; specific countries are not listed.