This study examines the price transmission between cotton prices in U.S., Indian, and Chinese futures markets. We focus … indicate the following: (a) the U.S. cotton futures market continues to be the most dominant market, and it leads price changes … in India and China; (b) the cotton prices in India also impacts the cotton prices in China as we report a unidirectional …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …