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World Service,09 Jun 2010,18 mins

Rubber Farms and Roadblocks

Business Daily

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Business Daily comes from West Africa where the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has hired a bus to go from Ivory Coast to Nigeria. Steve Evans talks to a teacher who also farms the family's small rubber farm, who tells Steve about demand from China and how inheritance in Ivory Coast, passes though the female line, and not from father-to-son. Plus Jean Louis Billon, president of Ivory Coast's chamber of commerce talks to us about the economic consequences of roadblocks.

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