unequal distributional outcomes in GCCs. The paper assesses national price stabilisation in the top cocoa-producing countries … Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana against changing inter-firm governance and price-setting institutions in the cocoa GCC. Based on … over 50 interviews with commodity trading houses (CTHs) and cocoa sector actors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, our analysis …

unequal distributional outcomes in GCCs. The paper assesses national price stabilisation in the top cocoa-producing countries … Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana against changing inter-firm governance and price-setting institutions in the cocoa GCC. Based on … over 50 interviews with commodity trading houses (CTHs) and cocoa sector actors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, our analysis …

The sectors of coffee and cocoa represented in Côte d'Ivoire, before the political crisis, approximately 15% of the GDP …, first, to evaluate the role of malaria on coffee and cocoa productions, second, to assess if the behaviour of rural … households facing a liberalisation of the coffee and cocoa chains has an impact on their income. Three functions are thus …

cocoa beans; (ii) the impacts of cocoa export taxes on domestic welfare. In particular, it attempts to develop a two … on Indonesian exports of cocoa beans would indeed divert some of the crop to domestic use. However, this leads to … significant losses to cocoa bean producers and does little to develop a processing sector. Second, interdependence between major …

Market access to export cocoa beans in many cocoa producing countries has improved greatly due to trade liberalization … in the cocoa sector. This has been accomplished through a variety of policy instruments, primarily structural adjustment … programs (SAPs). In reducing or eliminating the role of state-owned and operated marketing and exporting boards, cocoa …