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Institutional economics of Arabica coffee marketing in Cameroon.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Institutional economics of Arabica coffee marketing in Cameroon./
Author:	Wessen, Paul David.
Description:	432 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: A, page: 8290.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-03A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9922390
ISBN:	9780599217560

Institutional economics of Arabica coffee marketing in Cameroon.
Wessen, Paul David.

Institutional economics of Arabica coffee marketing in Cameroon. - 432 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: A, page: 8290.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1998.

Between 1990 and 1994, Cameroon reformed arabica coffee marketing institutions and restructured existing marketing cooperatives. By introducing an institutional market structure that more effectively resolved problems of economic coordination posed by the arabica situation of high information costs, reform anticipated a significant improvement in performance. A case study of the arabica reform experience provides an opportunity to study performance under alternative institutional market structures in the context of a location-specific situation, and to provide insight into conducting institutional reform.

ISBN: 9780599217560Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

Institutional economics of Arabica coffee marketing in Cameroon.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1998.
520 $a Between 1990 and 1994, Cameroon reformed arabica coffee marketing institutions and restructured existing marketing cooperatives. By introducing an institutional market structure that more effectively resolved problems of economic coordination posed by the arabica situation of high information costs, reform anticipated a significant improvement in performance. A case study of the arabica reform experience provides an opportunity to study performance under alternative institutional market structures in the context of a location-specific situation, and to provide insight into conducting institutional reform.
520 $a The study employs impact analysis to evaluate performance under the administered and the reformed market structures, focusing on how alternative institutions interact with situation to affect performance. The study analyzed cooperative marketing data which was supplemented by field observations and informal interviews.
520 $a The pre-reform administered market structure was poorly adapted to the arabica situation and failed to provide incentives for marketing organizations to economize, for farmers to produce, or for farmers and cooperatives to invest in quality. Performance was characterized by a long-term trend of declining real producer prices, decreasing production, increasing per-kilo marketing costs, and deteriorating quality. The system eventually collapsed in 1988/89.
520 $a Reform sought to restore profitability within the arabica subsector by creating incentives for cooperatives to economize and for both farmers and cooperatives to invest quality. This entailed the introduction of a market-like institutional structure and a fundamental restructuring of marketing and governance relationships within North West Cooperative Association (NWCA). But reform only partially resolved high information cost problems, in part due to compromises made during implementation.
520 $a Under the reformed market structure, producers were the direct beneficiaries of the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc and rising world coffee prices. Although per-kilo cooperative costs were reduced significantly during reform, there was a trend of rising costs after reform. Higher producer prices induced an increase in arabica production and a shift in regional marketing patterns. Although the study identified a positive quality response among cooperatives and producers during and after reform, problems remained.
520 $a If NWCA is to sustain the observed improvement in performance it will have to extend the reform process and modify the institutional structure that was implemented to reinforce incentives to economize. Sustained improvement in quality will depend on NWCA's ability to better use available measures of quality to distinguish and differentially reward producers and cooperatives for quality. But institutional reform is an inherently difficult process. Compromises made during implementation can have a strong impact on institutional performance.
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