Is more chocolate bad for poverty? An evaluation of cocoa pricing for Ghana’s industrialization and poverty reduction

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-saharan Africa
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP)
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number14en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorMulangu, Francisen
dc.contributor.authorMiranda, Marioen
dc.contributor.authorMaiga, Eugenieen
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-01T02:49:47Zen
dc.date.available2024-08-01T02:49:47Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149704
dc.titleIs more chocolate bad for poverty? An evaluation of cocoa pricing for Ghana’s industrialization and poverty reductionen
dcterms.abstractThe purpose of this study is to understand how cocoa pricing options affect local processors’ cocoa acquisition, processing, and inventory decisions, with the ultimate goal of determining which policies best meet the multiple, but possibly conflicting, public policy objectives of maximizing government revenue, maximizing and stabilizing processor profits and throughput, and reducing poverty rates among cocoa beans producers. To evaluate these effects, we construct and numerically solve a structural dynamic model of a representative cocoa processor that maximizes the present value of current and expected future profits, given prevailing market conditions and cocoa pricing options. We then take the predicted cocoa pricing options to determine their associated poverty impacts among cocoa producers. We used this model to evaluate the appropriate cocoa pricing regime for attaining Ghana’s objectives of increasing cocoa processing capacity to 40% of total cocoa produced in Ghana. We found, for example, that an appropriate 35% discount on main-crop beans will increase processor revenue by 57%, while either reducing government revenue by 36% or reducing cocoa farmers’ income by a maximum of 22%, depending on who bears the burden of the discount.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMulangu, Francis; Miranda, Mario; and Maiga, Eugenie. 2015. Is more chocolate bad for poverty? An evaluation of cocoa pricing for Ghana’s industrialization and poverty reduction. AGRODEP Working Paper 0014. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149704en
dcterms.extent33 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfAGRODEP Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2015-12-14
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130097en
dcterms.subjectcocoa beansen
dcterms.subjecteconomic developmenten
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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