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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL CONFLICT AND STATE INVOLVEMENT IN AFRICA’S OPEN ECONOMIES: THE ORIGINS OF THE GHANA COCOA MARKETING BOARD, 1939–46

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2002

ROD ALENCE
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Abstract

State-controlled cocoa marketing was introduced in the Gold Coast during the Second World War and has had lasting impact. Most accounts of this change have emphasized the influence of metropolitan interests and ideas more conducive to state involvement in colonial economies. Although they explain the new found metropolitan willingness to ‘supply’ financial and administrative backing for state-controlled economic institutions, they neglect the sources of the Gold Coast government’s ‘demand’ for those institutions. I argue that pressures on the government to mitigate domestic social conflict caused by volatility in the world economy are crucial to understanding the shift to controlled cocoa marketing.

Type
Reseach Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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