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This paper offers a rethinking of the global coffee crisis from 1998 to 2002. In seeking to account for the crisis, most official international institutions and non-governmental organisations have focused on the dynamics of the coffee market, its volatility and unpredictability, in the wake of the decline of the International Coffee Agreements in 1989. The result has been a dominant consensus around the 'market' as the cause of underdevelopment and its potential solution, with the 'state' receding ever further into the background. As an alternative to this consensus, this paper argues that the state and the market are inseparable and, more specifically, that coffee statecraft, both good and bad, has been and continues to be central to the everyday operations of the coffee industry. Drawing specifically on the role of the Vietnamese state, it argues that coffee statecraft played a key role in the crisis -- typically portrayed as primarily market-driven -- and proposes greater attention be paid to the geopolitical actions of southern states, the role of the state during times when it seems most benign or invisible, and the centrality of coffee statecraft in steering development outcomes. Adapted from the source document.

The purpose of the present paper is to examine in detail factors surrounding the level and determination of the producer price of coffee in Tanzania. It consists of working towards a definition of the appropriate level of the producer price, taking into account conditions observed in coffee production and marketing as well as strategic considerations of the role of the crop in the national economy

Intro -- Half Title -- Dedication -- By the same author -- Title Page -- Contents -- Map -- Notes on Spelling, Names, and Abbreviations -- Coffee Is Our Bread -- Part One: In the Forest -- 1. Sown by the Birds -- 2. Island Ethiopia -- 3. The Kingdom of Kafa -- 4. The Last King of Kafa -- 5. Origins -- 6. Gift for King and Country -- Part Two: Out of the Forest -- 7. Coffea aethiopica -- 8. City of Saints -- 9. Out of Arabia -- 10. Beyond Waves -- 11. La Roya -- 12. Impoverished -- Part Three: Back into the Forest -- 13. Collecting -- 14. Ex Situ -- 15. Geisha -- 16. A Matter of Degrees -- 17. In Situ -- 18. Sacrifices -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Color Plates -- A Note on the Author -- Also available from Jeff Koehler -- Copyright.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Introduction -- My Early Life -- 1996 - My Big Idea -- 1997 - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- 1998 - Breakthrough Year -- Coffee Like It's 1999 -- 2000 - Raising A Million -- 2001 - A Year for Learning -- 2002 - Making Lives Better -- 2003 - Enter a Competitor -- 2004 - AIM in Mind -- 2005 - Ganz Kaffee, Ganz Schnell -- 2006 - Trials, Negotiations and Cuts -- 2007-2008 - Coming Full Circle -- Exit -- Transition: Life after Exit -- Serial Entrepreneurship -- Designing A High Growth Business: What You Should do Before You Start - and at Each Stage - When Designing Your Business for High Growth.

WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E.?The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic quantity that a target population or market requires under different assumptions of price, quality, and distribution, among other factors. Latent demand, therefore, is commonly defined by economists as the industry earnings of a market when that market becomes accessible and attractive to serve by competing firms. It is a measure, therefore, of potential industry earnin