The Burkinabè cotton story 1992-2007: Sustainable success or sub-saharan mirage?

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1460-1475

  Kaminski, Jonathan ^a   Headey, Derek ^b   Bernard, Tanguy ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c International Food Policy Research Institute   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Cotton; Counterfactual analysis; Political sustainability; Poverty reduction; Production growth

Indexed keywords

COTTON; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC REFORM; EMPOWERMENT; INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PRIVATIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 79960305084     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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