Marketing West Africa's Export Crops
Modern Boards and Colonial Trading Companies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4929049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H L Van Der Laan (0000-0001-6765-1180, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 1987-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/s0022278x00007576 |
| OpenAlex | W2142980407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 21 |
The establishment of marketing boards in British West Africa in the 1940s was heralded at the time as a drastic, perhaps revolutionary change in the produce trade. The political implications were undoubtedly great: public enterprise (the marketing boards) had replaced private enterprise (a number of trading companies), and the ongoing debate on their relative merits made a colourful excursion to West Africa in the 1950s because this region offered a clear-cut case for comparison.1 The differences between the organisations were thus inevitably highlighted
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |