Strategies for Cotton in West and Central Africa : Enhancing Competitiveness in the Cotton-4

by Baghadadli, Ilhem

• ISBN13: 9780821371312
• ISBN10: 0821371312
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: World Bank

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.

Table of Contents

Foreward	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xi
Executive Summary	p. xiii
The Cotton Sector in West and Central Africa: A Success Story with Challenges Ahead	p. 1
Why Reform a Growing Sector?	p. 2
What Types of Reforms Were Instituted?	p. 9
What is the Way Forward? Towards a Competitiveness Approach	p. 10
Increasing Yields	p. 15
Why Do Seed Cotton Yields Matter?	p. 16
What Explains Stagnating Seed Cotton Yields in WCA?	p. 18
How Can Technical Practices in WCA be Improved?	p. 19
Reducing Post-harvest Costs and Improving Quality	p. 29
What are the Main Costs and Risks Borne by Ginners?	p. 30
What is the Way to Minimize Risk When Designing Seed Cotton Pricing Schemes?	p. 31
How Can the Risks Associated with Transport be Reduced?	p. 38
The Need to Improve the Reliability of Quality and Grading	p. 43
Enhancing Sales Revenues	p. 49
The Challenges of Managing Cotton Price Risk	p. 50
Tools for Selling Cotton and the Capacity to Use Them Proactively	p. 54
Designing and Implementing a Sales Strategy	p. 59
What Can Governments Do to Enhance Sales Revenues?	p. 65
Promoting Competitiveness Through Sector Reforms	p. 69
Re-structuring Markets	p. 70
What Types of Investors are Needed?	p. 75
Articulating the Main Steps of the De-regulation Process before Transferring Public Property to Private Investors	p. 75
Appendixes	p. 79
Implications of Cotton Policies	p. 81
Cotton and the Sixth WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong	p. 83
Bibiliography	p. 85
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