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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ghana's Cocoa Pricing Policy written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merrill J. Bateman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ghana's Cocoa Pricing Policy written by Merrill J. Bateman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana's cocoa production declined because of policies that overvalued the domestic currency and heavily taxed cocoa exports. A variable rate tax on cocoa (above the critical level) that increases and decreases with the world price would distribute the price risk between cocoa farmers and the rest of the society, stabilize cocoa farmers' real incomes, and let consumers share in windfall profits when world cocoa prices are high.
Author : Kolavalli, Shashidhara
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896292703
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The cocoa coast: The board-managed cocoa sector in Ghana: Synopsis written by Kolavalli, Shashidhara and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost 20 years of declining cocoa production, Ghana has been able in the last decade to increase the share of export prices going to producers, more than doubling production. Contrary to Washington Consensus prescriptions, these accomplishments were achieved through reforms but without liberalization of domestic and export marketing. The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana seeks to understand the success of a sector that was not liberalized. The authors identify three major reasons for Ghana’s success in cocoa production. First, cocoa producers receive an increasing share of export prices, because of factors including a stakeholder-advised process for determining producer prices that also pays explicit attention to discouraging smuggling of cocoa to neighboring countries and the popular perception that cocoa performance is tied to the country’s general economic performance. Second, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has a policy of retaining a portion of producer revenues to promote the adoption of yield-enhancing measures. Third, centralized marketing and maintenance of the high export quality for which Ghana is known enables the country to offer stable prices to producers and opportunities for local businesses to participate in the sector and retain some power in the global value chain.
Author : Kolavalli, Shashidhara
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896292681
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The cocoa coast: The board-managed cocoa sector in Ghana written by Kolavalli, Shashidhara and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost 20 years of declining cocoa production, Ghana has been able in the last decade to increase the share of export prices going to producers and more than double production. Contrary to Washington Consensus prescriptions, these accomplishments were achieved through reforms that did not include market liberalization. In The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana, the authors identify factors that have contributed to Ghana’s success in cocoa production. These include the accountability of the government for the sector’s performance (cocoa-sector performance being seen as a key dimension of economic management), its interest in maintaining the ability to raise funds globally as a reliable supplier of high-quality cocoa, and its policy of retaining a portion of producer revenues to promote the adoption of yield-enhancing measures. The authors also suggest how Ghana can improve the efficiency of the cocoa sector through measures such as increased transparency and curtailing services that would be better provided by the private sector. The Cocoa Coast will be a valuable resource for policy makers, development specialists, and others interested in different national development paths.
Author : Joe Willie Essuman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Statistical Analysis of the Demand for Cocoa in the U.S. written by Joe Willie Essuman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trades Union Congress
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ISBN 13 : 9789988301088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Cocoa Producer Price & COCOBOD's Interventions in the Cocoa Sector written by Trades Union Congress and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The report provides an overview of the cocoa sector in Ghana. The focus is on cocoa pricing and COCOBOD's intervention in the sector. Cocoa farmers in Ghana have suffered some of the heaviest taxation ever recorded in history. The heavy taxation of cocoa was a colonial legacy that got reinforced in post-independent Ghana. By the early 1980s, cocoa farmers were receiving less than one-fifth of the cocoa export price. Naturally, this reduced farmers' motivation driving cocoa production into the ground. ... But most importantly, the pricing policies of COCOBOD and the Government of Ghana (GoG) have contributed to the impoverishment that has become the lots of cocoa farmers"--Pages 1-2
Download or read book Ghana, Policies and Programme for Adjustment: The cocoa sector written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr.Ales Bulir
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451851138
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Price Incentive to Smuggle and the Cocoa Supply in Ghana, 1950-96 written by Mr.Ales Bulir and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1960s to the early 1980s, the officially recorded production of cocoa in Ghana declined by 60 percent. During the 1983–95 Economic Recovery Program, however, cocoa production doubled. Although these developments have inspired much empirical research, most of the studies have been unable to explain the medium-term persistence of cocoa output to remain below its estimated capacity level. The paper argues that the price incentive to smuggle can explain as much as one-half of the observed decline in output and the subsequent recovery. A cointegration analysis and a dynamic error-correction model of cocoa supply support the analysis.
Author : J. Dirck Stryker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Trade, Exchange Rate, and Agricultural Pricing Policies in Ghana written by J. Dirck Stryker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report shows that Ghana's economic decline of agricultural prices cannot be attributed solely to government price intervention. But intervention in the workings of the cocoa sector contributed heavly to the country's inability to achieve prosperity and stability after 1957. During the decades since independence in 1957, direct intervention in Ghana's all-important cocoa sector has been in the hands of a Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB), which sets annual producer prices, purchases the crop from domestic producers and markets it to foreign buyers. Although the chief reason for creating the CMB was to assure Ghana's cocoa farmers a stable and decent income, the agency's direct intervention helped to keep producer prices lower than they might have been otherwise. The government's direct and indirect intervention in the cocoa market, according to the study, far outweighed its incentives to cocoa producers. Moreover, most of the benefits of these incentives went to large producers rather than the far more numerous smallholders. Another important finding of this study is that government regulation of the cocoa sector had the serious negative long-term effect of deferring the replacement of old coffee trees with new ones.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251099693
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Commodities and Development Report 2017 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodity prices are projected to increase marginally until 2030. The challenge for developing countries is to foster an environment that combines fiscal, sectoral and social policies to prevent price volatility from impacting national economies.
Author : François Ruf
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855732155
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cocoa Cycles written by François Ruf and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cyclical boom-to-recession nature of the economics of cocoa supply is a major problem for the international cocoa industry - and especially for countries whose economies depend on cocoa exports. Only through an understanding of the dynamics of cocoa cycles can policy decisions be made through the various phases of supply cycles. Based on a major international cocoa conference, this book presents seventeen edited papers from leading experts, making a major contribution to that understanding. It explains the powerful economic, social and political factors which impact on the cocoa economy. It shows the laws of cocoa supply are closely linked to environmental, ecological and institutional factors.
Author : Björn Beckman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Organising the Farmers written by Björn Beckman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana and the CPP: an introduction; The cocoa economy; The origin of the farmers' council; The struggle for monopoly; New midlemen; Participation and political control; Cocoa and the public economy.
Author : Jonathan Roger Coleman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9610041256
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book How Policy Changes Affected Cocoa Sectors in Sub-Saharan African Countries written by Jonathan Roger Coleman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana's structural adjustment program was very beneficial to its cocoa sector. Although world cocoa prices fell as a result of Ghana's expansion, the decline was much less than that from production expansions by other major producers.
Author : Shashi Kolavalli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896292840
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Cocoa Coast written by Shashi Kolavalli and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Polly Hill
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825830854
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Migrant Cocoa-farmers of Southern Ghana written by Polly Hill and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and social organisation of Ghanaian cocoa-farming is very complex, reflecting differences in population density, land tenure, accessibility, soil fertility and other factors. The 'small peasant', with his two or three acre farms, is one type of farmer, and it has always been supposed that it was he who created the world's largest cocoa-growing industry. The migration of southern Ghanaian cocoa-farmers, which has been proceeding since the 1890s, was not known to have occurred; and this study shows that it was the migrant, not the 'peasant', who was the real innovator. This migrant has scarcely been mentioned in the literature. Author Polly Hill now gives a full account of his migration, 'one of the great events in the recent economic history of Africa south of the Sahara'. The migrant farmer, who rather resembles a 'capitalist' than a 'peasant', buys land (or inherits it from those who bought before him) and conventionally uses the proceeds from one cocoa land to purchase others. It is now possible with the aid of farm-maps to study the whole migratory process, with its changing pattern of land ownership, over more than half a century. The results are revealing. The conventional notion that it was only recently that West Africans began to engage in large-scale economic enterprises is shown to be false. One of the main contentions of this book is that the migrant farmer has been remarkably responsive to economic ends. It is further shown that there is no incompatibility between this kind of enterprise and the continuance of traditional forms of social organisation: nor is there evidence that the enterprising individual found himself hampered by the demands made on him by members of his lineage. In analysing and recording the details of the migratory process, Dr. Hill has made an important contribution to the economic history of West Africa. Besides the economists and economic historians for whom the book is primarily intended, it should be studied by lawyers, geographers, social anthropologists, and all concerned with problems of underdevelopment.
Author : Takamasa Akiyama
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Cocoa and Coffee Pricing Policies in Côte D'Ivoire written by Takamasa Akiyama and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing increasingly tough international competition in coffee and cocoa markets, Côte d'Ivoire can increase export revenues from the two commodities 8 percent in 1995 and about 12 percent in 2000 by increasing coffee production and cutting back on the expansion in cocoa production.
Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9210579275
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Cocoa Industry written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the vertical and horizontal integration in the cocoa industry and its potential impacts on stakeholders along the value chain, in particular small cocoa farmers who constitute the backbone of cocoa production worldwide. It contends that the concentration pattern observed at all segments of cocoa GVC may have contributed to a high level of efficiency, but could become problematic, in particular if it fosters oligopsonic/monopsonic or monopolistic/oligopolistic behaviour in the industry with detrimental effects for small players. It also discusses the extent of integration of cocoa farmers into international markets by assessing the transmission of international cocoa prices to the domestic prices paid to farmers. The results suggest that transmission has increased with trade liberalizing reforms undertaken by cocoa producing countries, but, overall, the outcomes are mixed, so far. The reforms have increased the exposure of farmers to the vagaries of international markets, but they are not associated with a significant, if any, increase in the share of world prices of cocoa accruing to farmers. In order to make cocoa cultivation a more viable source of livelihoods for farmers, and ensure a sustainable global cocoa economy, it would be essential for governments and other stakeholders to implement policies that enable cocoa farmers to increase their incomes. The publication is useful for governments of cocoa producing countries, development practitioners, including agricultural economists and the private sector, with an interest in empowering farmers, and in the development of a sustainable cocoa economy. Ultimately, it should make an invaluable contribution to the debate on how to reduce poverty, and attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their commitment to ''leave no on behind'', especially in cocoa farming communities.
