Wonka Budgets: CSR, Taxes, and Public Good Provision in Ghana’s Cocoa Regions

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Brief Overview

This paper explores district budgets and private firms’ CSR investments in Ghana’s cocoa industry to investigate: When private firms invest in development via CSR, does it act as a substitution for local government spending or a complement to it?

Author

• Siobhan Finnerty, University of Chicago