Comparative Advantage as a Development Model
The Ivory Coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4251615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil B Ridler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-417 |
| Publication date | 1985-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00057153 |
| OpenAlex | W2156548873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
The Ivory Coast was lauded as a development 'success' for 20 years after independence in 1960. In fact, the 1978 World Bank report on the Ivory Coast was sub-titled 'the challenge of success'. Six years after the publication of this economic study, the so-called 'miracle' looked more like a mirage, so much so that an analyst could write: 'no African country's creditworthiness has fallen more spectacularly than that of the Ivory Coast'. Domestically, it has been obliged to implement a severe austerity programme, and externally, to request a rescheduling of its debt. From a real growth rate of G.N.P. that had averaged more than 7 per cent a year since 1960, growth fell to 2 per cent in 1981, to zero per cent in 1982, and to −4.3 per cent in 1983
Austerity · Debt · Economic history · Economics · Fell · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Miracle · Political science · Finance · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · History · Law
Political Topographies of the African State
Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 1946–1975
Political Topographies of the African State
The Caisse de Stabilisation in the coffee sector of the Ivory Coast
Development theory and reality
Economic Miracles and Their Hypes
Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black Masculinity
Fixed Exchange Rates and Structural Adjustment Programmes
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2025 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |