French marketing boards in the Ivory Coast: an historical survey, 1931-1954

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Title:	French marketing boards in the Ivory Coast: an historical survey, 1931-1954
Author:	Goodall, Michael
Year:	1983
Pages:	17
Language:	English
Series:	Marketing boards in tropical Africa
City of publisher:	Leiden
Publisher:	African Studies Centre
Geographic terms:	Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire France
Subjects:	marketing boards colonialism cash crops international trade
Abstract:	Because the marketing boards of British tropical Africa, established during the Second World War, have tended to become the modus operandi for any assessment of government intervention in African overseas trade, most of the literature dealing with the economic history of French Africa has overemphasised the importance of the creation in 1954 of the caisse de stabilisation, thereby almost completely ignoring the preceding period. The historical context was taken for granted. This a historian cannot do, and the present paper therefore sets out to trace the evolution of the methods used by France in marketing export crops West Africa, and in particular the commodities of coffee and cocoa from the Ivory Coast, in order to establish the historical context and to verify A. Hopkins assertion that 'the French experimented with broadly similar arrangements at an earlier date than did the British' ('An economic history of West Africa', London, 1973, p.264).