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Commodity dependence, global commodity chains, price volatility and financialisation: Price-setting and stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Tröster, Bernhard; Staritz, Cornelia; Grumiller, Jan; … - 2019

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 …

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Does mobile phone technology reduce agricultural price distortions? Evidence from cocoa and coffee industries

Nsabimana, Aimable; Amuakwa-Mensah, Franklin - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-24

protection systems, has received rare attention in the cocoa and coffee sub-sectors. This study examines the contribution of … mobile phone technology in reducing price distortions in cocoa and coffee production. In addition, we tested stylized facts … distortion in the cocoa and coffee industries. …

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Diabetic and cardiovascular patients' willingness to pay for upcoming national health insurance scheme in Côte d'Ivoire

Oga, Agbaya Stéphane Serge; Attia-konan, Akissi Régine; … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 8, pp. 1-8

Background: Côte d'Ivoire's current health care financing system results from successive reforms undertaken with government funding and international support. The country is moving towards a national compulsory health insurance scheme. This context offered an opportunity to study additional...

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Impact of development aid on infant mortality: Micro-level evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Wayoro, Didier; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2019

The empirical literature has failed to reach consensus on the impact of aid on development outcomes based on aggregate cross-country analysis. This study follows the current trend in the literature on the effectiveness of aid to examine the impact of local-level aid on health outcomes. We...

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Not Always in the People's Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements

Mehler, Andreas - 2008

Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve third-party mediators during the negotiation stage and often peacekeeping troops to guarantee the agreement at an implementation stage. Peace roundtables usually involve top politicians and...

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Political Discourse in Football Coverage – The Cases of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Mehler, Andreas - 2006

Football coverage in newspapers is both an arena for and a mirror of political discourse within a society. The paper argues that discourses within football coverage referring to political issues reflect dominant - and, possibly, contesting - 'truths', which themselves are linked to power...

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Breaking the "Insecurity Trap"? How Violence and Counter-violence are Perpetuated in Elite Power Struggles

Mehler, Andreas - 2008

Half a century after independence, African elites, at least those in conflict-ridden countries, often live in constant fear for their life. Real or invented coup attempts, political assassinations, beatings of opposition leaders, the distribution of death lists, etc. have a profoundly...

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Economic growth and biodiversity: An overview. Conservation policies in Africa

Iritié, Bi Goli Jean Jacques - In: Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2015) 2, pp. 196-208

From the economic literature on the relationship between economic growth and environment pioneered by Grossman and Krueger (1991) and Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992) we first conduct a theoretical and critical reflection on the existence of a Kuznets curve for biodiversity. It appears that...

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Spoken words fly away, written words remain: Employment contracts between farmers and farm workers

Jäckering, Lisa; Meemken, Eva-Marie; Sellare, Jorge; … - 2020

Farm workers in developing countries often belong to the poorest of the poor. They typically face low wages, informal working arrangements, and inadequate social protection. Written employment contracts with clearly defined rights and obligations could possibly help, but it is not clear how such...

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Shifting visions of property under competing political regimes: Changing uses of Côte d'Ivoire's 1998 land law

Boone, Catherine - 2017

Land law reform through registration and titling is often viewed as a technocratic, good-governance step toward building market economies and depoliticizing land transactions. In actual practice, however, land registration and titling programs can be highly partisan, bitterly contentious, and...

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