Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa

Learning from Reform Experience

David Tschirley, Colin Poulton, Patrick Labaste

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9780821378236
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Commodities
• Index: Business

Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa. While the continent's share of the world's agricultural trade fell by about half from 1980 to 2005, its share of world cotton exports more than doubled. Cotton is a major source of foreign exchange earnings in more than 15 countries of the continent and is a crucial source of income for millions of rural people. 'Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa' provides an in-depth comparative analysis of the outcomes of the reforms that have been implemented in Sub-Saharan cotton sectors and of the linkages between sector organization and performance. The book highlights challenges facing cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and demonstrates how reform in the sectors is the key to sustaining growth, improving competitiveness and reducing rural poverty. It provides national and regional policy makers with a number of recommendations based upon the observable lessons of past reform programs.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Executive Summary
• Section I. Introduction and Market Context
• Section II. Historical Background and Conceptual Approach
• Section III. Comparative Analysis: Core Activities and Service Delivery
• Section IV. Comparative Analysis: Outcomes
• Appendix A: Statistical Tables
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Boxes
• Figures
• Tables