A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Pricing Policies for Cocoa and Coffee in Côte d'Ivoire
提出了一个评估多年生作物定价政策的灵活计算模型，用于分析科特迪瓦可可和咖啡的定价政策，发现降低咖啡相对可可的税收能显著改善现状。
This article presents an approach to evaluating pricing policies for perennial crops. A flexible computational model is developed, which incorporates important features of perennial crop production that are not captured by other (usually static) frameworks. This framework produces sensible and plausible scenarios for pricing cocoa and coffee in Côte d'Ivoire, as well as descriptions of revenue tradeoffs. Key issues arise from considering major changes in the rules used to set domestic producer prices. An unambiguously best policy is not determined, but several policies improve substantially on the present situation. Most of these alternatives indicate the desirability of lowering the tax on coffee relative to cocoa.