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Sub-Saharan African Cotton Policies in Retrospect
Calls for liberalizing cash crop sectors in sub-saharan Africa have been voiced for decades. Yet, the impact of reforms remains elusive in...
Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export...
Subsidies and Regulatory Reform in West African Cotton: What are the Development Stakes?
Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in world prices. This means they are...
EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
For the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...