Institutional Diversity and Performance in African Cotton Sectors
This article analyses the performance of cotton sectors across East, Southern, and West Africa, paying particular attention to the wide diversity of institutional arrangements that they now exhibit. It finds strong support for earlier contentions regarding trade-offs between competition and coordina...
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okr-10986-53662021-04-23T14:02:22Z Institutional Diversity and Performance in African Cotton Sectors Tschirley, D. L. Poulton, C. Gergely, N. Labaste, P. Baffes, J. Boughton, D. Estur, G. This article analyses the performance of cotton sectors across East, Southern, and West Africa, paying particular attention to the wide diversity of institutional arrangements that they now exhibit. It finds strong support for earlier contentions regarding trade-offs between competition and coordination, and between the roles of public and private sectors. New insights provide concrete and context-specific guidance to policy-makers and stakeholders regarding the key challenges they will face and the risks they will need to manage as they work to improve productivity and ensure an equitable division of benefits within cotton sectors. 2012-03-30T07:32:30Z 2012-03-30T07:32:30Z 2010 Journal Article Development Policy Review 0950-6764 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5366 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Africa |
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This article analyses the performance of cotton sectors across East, Southern, and West Africa, paying particular attention to the wide diversity of institutional arrangements that they now exhibit. It finds strong support for earlier contentions regarding trade-offs between competition and coordination, and between the roles of public and private sectors. New insights provide concrete and context-specific guidance to policy-makers and stakeholders regarding the key challenges they will face and the risks they will need to manage as they work to improve productivity and ensure an equitable division of benefits within cotton sectors. |
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Tschirley, D. L. Poulton, C. Gergely, N. Labaste, P. Baffes, J. Boughton, D. Estur, G. |
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Institutional Diversity and Performance in African Cotton Sectors |
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Institutional Diversity and Performance in African Cotton Sectors |
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