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Institutional Diversity and Performance in African Cotton Sectors
Author(s) -
Tschirley David L.,
Poulton Colin,
Gergely Nicholas,
Labaste Patrick,
Baffes John,
Boughton Duncan,
Estur Gérald
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00485.x
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , context (archaeology) , productivity , competition (biology) , work (physics) , face (sociological concept) , private sector , public sector , business , public economics , economics , economic growth , political science , geography , economy , sociology , ecology , mechanical engineering , social science , archaeology , engineering , law , biology
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.