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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Cocoa Price Policy Reform in Cote d'Ivoire

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dc.contributor.authorKatayama, Roy
dc.contributor.authorDabalen, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorNssah, Essama
dc.contributor.authorAmouzou Agbe, Guy Morel
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-04T19:26:17Z
dc.date.available2018-04-04T19:26:17Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-17
dc.description.abstractCote d'Ivoire is the world’s leading cocoa producer, supplying nearly 40 percent of world cocoa production. Developments in the cocoa sector can have significant implications for poverty reduction and shared prosperity given that the sector is a source of livelihood for about one-fifth of the population, as well as an important source of export and government revenues. Cocoa pricing has always been a major focus of public policy in the country, and in 2011 the government initiated a new round of cocoa sector reforms seeking to stimulate cocoa production and to secure the livelihoods of cocoa farmers through guaranteed minimum farm-gate prices. Policymakers will certainly like to know the likely impacts of this price policy reform on household welfare and poverty. This paper uses a nonparametric approach to policy incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of this policy reform. To assess the pro-poorness of the reform in cocoa pricing, variations in poverty induced by the policy are compared to a benchmark case. While increasing the cocoa farm-gate price has a potential to reduce poverty among cocoa farmers, it turns out that the increase in 2015-2016 translates into a relatively small drop in overall poverty. This variation is assessed to be weakly pro-poor. It is likely that this poverty impact can be amplified by additional policy interventions designed to address the key constraints facing the rural economy such as productivity constraints stemming from factors such as lack of relevant research and development, weak extension services, poor transportation and storage infrastructure, and generally poor provision of relevant public goods. Addressing these issues require a coherent policy framework that can be effectively implemented by accountable institutions to increase the role of agriculture as an engine of inclusive growth in Cote d'Ivoire.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/577141522101889356/Welfare-and-poverty-impacts-of-cocoa-price-policy-reform-in-Cote-dIvoire
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/29625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29625
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCOCOA FARM
dc.subjectCOCOA PRICE
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectCOMMODITY PRICES
dc.subjectPRICE POLICY REFORM
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
dc.subjectBENEFIT INCIDENCE ANALYSIS
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACT
dc.subjectEXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.titleWelfare and Poverty Impacts of Cocoa Price Policy Reform in Cote d'Ivoireen
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okr.crossref.titleWelfare and Poverty Impacts of Cocoa Price Policy Reform in Cote d'Ivoire
okr.date.disclosure2018-03-29
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Poverty Study
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/577141522101889356/Welfare-and-poverty-impacts-of-cocoa-price-policy-reform-in-Cote-dIvoire
okr.guid577141522101889356
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/29625
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b08580ebea_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum29752790
okr.identifier.report124704
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/577141522101889356/pdf/Welfare-and-Poverty-Impacts-of-Ccoa-Price-Policy-Reform-in-Cote-d-Ivoire.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryCote d'Ivoire
okr.topicAgriculture::Agricultural Sector Economics
okr.topicAgriculture::Crops & Crop Management Systems
okr.topicAgriculture::Food Markets
okr.topicAgriculture::Food Security
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Export Competitiveness
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Commodities
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.unitPoverty and Equity Global Practice
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