TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goreux,Louis M.
AU  - Badiane,Ousmane
AU  - Ghura,Dhaneshwar
AU  - Goreux,Louis M.
AU  - Masson,Paul R.
TI  - Cotton Sector Strategies in West and Central Africa
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451858647 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Cotton Production
KW  - imf
KW  - Cotton Sector Reform
KW  - Cotton Sector
KW  - Cotton Subsidies
KW  - Crop
KW  - Farm
KW  - Benin
KW  - Burkina Faso
KW  - Central African Republic
KW  - China, People's Republic of
KW  - United States
KW  - West and Central Africa
N2  - Cotton production in West and Central Africa (WCA) has contributed to growth and poverty reduction. Recently, the objective of poverty alleviation has been adversely impacted by the downward pressures on world prices (exacerbated by subsidies by major cotton producers outside Africa). Several countries in WCA are undergoing reforms in the cotton sector to stimulate greater market competition and raise the share of the international price going to farmers. While these efforts would help to improve rural income irrespective of the world market situation, they would be more powerful in combination with a reduction in other countries' subsidies in this sector
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