responses transform the local economy. Taking the case of sustainability certification in the cocoa industry of Ghana, this …In the context of persisting sustainability challenges in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain (GCCC), sustainability …-linked pressures. In the Ghanaian cocoa sector, t sustainability certification became a key tool of competition for farmers among local …

We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a … influence of cocoa prices on consumer price inflation is strong and statistically significant. The influence of the budget …

The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa …

Through a case-study of cocoa-farming in Ghana, this paper takes up the longrunning but recently neglected debate about …

In the global cocoa-chocolate chain, sustainability certification became the most widely applied industry tool to … respond to sustainability challenges, such as extreme poverty among cocoa producers, and related issues of child labor and … as key for a broader sustainability transition. Insights from key informant interviews in two Ghanaian cocoa communities …

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 …

dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers … small firm informal sector: there is not a robust average satisfaction premium for formal work vis a vis self-employment or … distribution of satisfaction across sectors. The results are robust to the inclusion of fixed effects, and using alternate measures …

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …