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 …

regimes on global cocoa trade. STATA statistical tool was employed in analyzing panel data from 10 leading cocoa … materials and products. Most cocoa-producing countries grow cocoa as a cash crop, thus, rely heavily on the trade of cocoa beans … and other product. Therefore, it would be counterintuitive to have all the profits from the trade of cocoa to be wiped out …

of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …

whether the progressing globalisation of the world economy is to blame for these two trends. From this analysis, two important …