regimes on global cocoa trade. STATA statistical tool was employed in analyzing panel data from 10 leading cocoa …-producing countries from 1980 to 2016. With the justification of the Hausman test, the fixed effects estimation method was used. The main … materials and products. Most cocoa-producing countries grow cocoa as a cash crop, thus, rely heavily on the trade of cocoa beans …

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 …