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Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the "Cotton 4" / Ilhem Baghdadli, Hela Cheikhrouhou, Gael Raballand.
Lippincott Library HD9087.A2 B34 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Baghdadli, Ilhem.
- Series:
- World Bank working paper 1726-5878 ; no. 108.
- World Bank working paper, 1726-5878 ; no. 108
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cotton trade--Africa, West.
- Cotton trade.
- Cotton trade--Africa, Central.
- Central Africa.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 88 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2007.
- Summary:
- Strategies for Cotton in West and Central Africa is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.
- Based on comprehensive empirical studies, this paper identifies key reforms and defines strategies to enhance the competitiveness of the cotton sector in West and Central Africa. Lessons learned from the 1990s suggest that transferring public property to private enterprises is not enough, by itself, to put the sector back on a sustainable path.
- The cotton sector in most West and Central African countries is critical in terms of its contribution to GDP and exports as well as to poverty reduction. Until recently, the cotton sector was characterized by a vertically-integrated monopolistic structure, whereby all transactions in the chain (including ginning, transportation, and input supply) were handled by the state-owned cotton company. However, during the late 1990s, a number of internal and external factors created the need to reassess the structure of the cotton industries in the region. Areas for improvement include increasing yields to produce larger volumes, reducing cost and increasing the reliability of grading, and enhancing sales revenues. This paper explains how these targets can be pursued effectively through sector reforms.
- Contents:
- 1 The Cotton Sector in West and Central Africa: A Success Story with Challenges Ahead 1
- Why Reform a Growing Sector? 2
- What Types of Reforms Were Instituted? 9
- What is the Way Forward? Towards a Competitiveness Approach 10
- 2 Increasing Yields 15
- Why Do Seed Cotton Yields Matter? 16
- What Explains Stagnating Seed Cotton Yields in WCA? 18
- How Can Technical Practices in WCA be Improved? 19
- 3 Reducing Post-harvest Costs and Improving Quality 29
- What are the Main Costs and Risks Borne by Ginners? 30
- What is the Way to Minimize Risk When Designing Seed Cotton Pricing Schemes? 31
- How Can the Risks Associated with Transport be Reduced? 38
- The Need to Improve the Reliability of Quality and Grading 43
- 4 Enhancing Sales Revenues 49
- The Challenges of Managing Cotton Price Risk 50
- Tools for Selling Cotton and the Capacity to Use Them Proactively 54
- Designing and Implementing a Sales Strategy 59
- What Can Governments Do to Enhance Sales Revenues? 65
- 5 Promoting Competitiveness Through Sector Reforms 69
- Re-structuring Markets 70
- What Types of Investors are Needed? 75
- Articulating the Main Steps of the De-regulation Process before Transferring Public Property to Private Investors 75
- A Implications of Cotton Policies 81
- B Cotton and the Sixth WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong 83.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-88).
- ISBN:
- 0821371312
- 9780821371312
- 9780821371329
- 0821371320
- OCLC:
- 152568664
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