Strong exports of commodities and a return to profitability by Sweden's banking sector drove a rebound in 2010, but growth slipped in 2013, as a result of continued economic weakness in the EU - Sweden's main export market.
It may also prevent him from obtaining funds through the export of commodities to neutrals, and it may prevent neutrals from trading with the enemy.
Throughout Africa and in parts of Asia and Latin America, guerrillas finance their armies through the illegal export of commodities: timber, diamonds, oil and coca.
The UN said in a report last week that robust growth in Africa, driven mainly by production and export of commodities, was failing to translate into job creation and the broad-based development needed to reduce high poverty and rising inequality rates in many countries.
The underreporting could be due to fear, among the notifying countries, of the potential negative impact on their tourism industry and export of commodities.
A small, isolated country, it has one of the world's most unregulated economies and is highly dependent on foreign investment, the export of agricultural commodities and long-haul tourism.
More than half a million people have lost jobs since December and there has been a sharp drop in the export of commodities.
Government finances in such countries as Angola, Botswana, Chad, Congo and Nigeria, which rely heavily on the export of commodities, are being pummelled.
It was whether the country depended heavily on the export of commodities like coffee, timber, coca, gold or oil.
They were shocked to discover that the single best predictor of conflict was a nation's dependence on the export of commodities.
