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| Title: | The Ivory Coast Economic 'Miracle': What Benefits for Peasant Farmers? |
| Author: | Hecht, Robert M. |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 25-53 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
| Subjects: | farmers economic development wealth Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160615 |
| Abstract: | A moderately poor country in African terms at independence, the Ivory Coast has achieved an average growth rate of 7.3 percent during the period 1960-79. By comparison, during the 1970s, Niger reached 3.7 percent, Senegal 2.5 percent, and Sierra Leone 1.6 percent, while Ghana experienced a pitiful decline of -0.1 percent. By 1980, the Ivory Coast had a GDP per capita of $1,150, the highest among the non oil-producing countries in Africa. Three main arguments are advanced in this article to explain both the nature and the limitations of this 'miracle'. Sections: Introduction - The dimensions of economic growth - Ivorian growth: small-holder perspectives - The power base of the Ivorian elite. Notes, tab. |
