the family ARCH as analysis tool with relationship to the behavior of the return of the cocoa, of the fatcow, of the … volatility. The markets are asymmetric for the return of these commodities. For the future market of the fat ox and of the cocoa …

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 …

Gravity models were developed to estimate the potential bilateral exports of cocoa under trade liberalization by the … sixteen major cocoa producing countries to the US using panel data from 1989 to 2003. The results indicate that differences … major determinants. Thus, as trade is liberalized, farmers share of the world price of cocoa increases and this raises …

This study uses survey data to examine the role of access to credit on cocoa production, in West African cocoa … to simulate the counterfactual of what cocoa production would be in the absence of credit facilities. The survey results … show that about 54% of cocoa farmers have access to credit in Nigeria, and respectively 37% in Cameroon, while in Ghana and …

the family ARCH as analysis tool with relationship to the behavior of the return of the cocoa, of the fatcow, of the … volatility. The markets are asymmetric for the return of these commodities. For the future market of the fat ox and of the cocoa …

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 …