Abstract:
The research reviews structural changes taking place in the 21st
century, which is an era of shifts in the world economy, occurring under the influence
of scientific and technological revolution, specialization and cooperation of industrial
production and contributing to qualitative changes in the field of globalization of
commodity markets. These processes are imperfect and, due to many shortcomings,
require further scientific research.
The purpose of the study is to determine the role of drivers of the global
commodity market shaping.
The article investigated the essence of factors of the global commodity market
formation and its components. Influence of trade liberalization on formation of global
commodity market was determined; the development of information technologies in the
field of communications, information processing, transport technologies, as well as
vigorous action of multinational companies were analyzed.
