Optimum Level and Welfare Effects of Export Taxes for Cocoa Beans in Indonesia: A Partial Equilibrium Approach [PDF]
Aiming to support downstream processing, the Indonesian government announced an export tax in May 2010. Using a partial equilibrium approach, this paper therefore attempts to analyse: (i) whether the Indonesian government has imposed optimal taxes on ...
Permani, Risti +2 more
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Reforming Cote d'Ivoire's cocoa marketing and pricing system [PDF]
Cote d'Ivoire has historically taxed cocoa producers. Market reforms over the past 10 years have somewhat succeeded in making domestic and foreign marketing more transparent and competitive.
Varangis, Panos, McIntire, John
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Supply Chain Sustainability of Cocoa Beans in Ghana: A Case Study of Ghana Cocoa Board LTD (COCOBOD) [PDF]
, 2018 Ghana is still ranked among the top producers of cocoa in the world, just second to Ivory Coast. Cocoa continues to be the number one foreign earner and highest contributor to the country’s GDP.
Aziadzo, Isaac Anani
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Working Paper 104 - Technology Gap and Efficiency in Cocoa Production in West and Central Africa: Implications for Cocoa Sector Development [PDF]
This paper applies the recentlydeveloped metafrontier functiontechnique to investigate productivitypotentials and efficiencies in cocoaproduction in West and Central Africa.The methodology enables the estimationof national technology gap ratios (TGRs)by ...
Jim Gockowsk +2 more
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Investing in agrochemicals in the cocoa sector of Côte d’Ivoire: hypotheses, evidence and policy implications [PDF]
This paper presents empirical evidence to show how socioeconomic factors affect the adoption of and investment in agrochemicals in the cocoa sector of Côte d’Ivoire.
Keho, Yaya +3 more
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Does the WTO Increase Trade? The Case of U.S. Cocoa Imports from WTO-Member Producing Countries [PDF]
Replaced with revised version of paper 06/08/2010.Gravity models, Exports, Market liberalization, Cocoa, Fixed Effects, Random Effects and Pooled Models, International Relations/Trade, F10, F13,
Allen, Albert J. +3 more
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Cahiers AgriculturesUn nouveau boom du cacao a commencé au Liberia. La forêt primaire du pays régresse de jour en jour pour être convertie en cacaoyères alors que le règlement européen interdisant la « déforestation importée » est censé s’appliquer en janvier 2025.
Ruf François, Galo Abelle
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Market Power and Structural Adjustment: The Case of West African Cocoa Market Liberalization [PDF]
Liberalization of the cocoa market in West Africa, due to structural adjustment reforms, has resulted in the elimination of para-statal marketing boards and initiated the creation of new institutions to replace the marketing services of those agencies ...
Wilcox, Michael D., Abbott, Philip C.
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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers [PDF]
Liberalization of tropical agricultural markets has brought globalization, in the sense that all producers now face world rather than domestic prices.
Christopher L. Gilbert, Panos Varangis
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Coffee and Cocoa Research JournalSustainable waste management and the preservation of soil health represent critical challenges in intensive coffee and cocoa plantation. Composting offers an effective approach for sustainable waste management by enhancing soil health, while arbuscular ...
Andrian Perdana +4 more
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