The Sulawesi cocoa marketing channel: an "almost perfect" competition

Through a brief description of the establishment of the Sulawesi cocoa marketing channel with an increasing number of middlemen and exporters, the authors demonstrate its extremely close competition and high economic efficiency in terms of low marketing and transaction costs and high producer prices which contribute to a major windfall. As most smallholders and middlemen belong to the famous Bugis people and as they operate in a freemarket environment, this cocoa success story is interpreted as the result of both a free market policy and the ability of Bugis to seize its economic opportunities.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Ruf, François, Yoddang
Format:	conference_item biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Yayasan Obor Indonesia
Subjects:	E71 - Commerce international, Theobroma cacao, marketing, concurrence économique, concurrence parfaite, qualité, politique économique, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7713, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4620, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4614, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28743, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6400, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28672, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3840, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7508,
Online Access:	http://agritrop.cirad.fr/486402/
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