In the 19th century, the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association (CBA) coordinated the dramatic growth of Liverpool's raw … cotton market. This article shows how the CBA achieved this through the development of a private order institutional … largest raw cotton market in the world. The article's findings demonstrate and quantify the importance of nonstate actors, in …

'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 …

'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 …

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 …

What would a "good" industrial policy in the realm of cotton production look like? This article seeks to address this … question through a focus on reforms to the cotton sector in Kazakhstan. In contrast with neighbouring Uzbekistan and … Turkmenistan, administrators in Kazakhstan had widely freed the cotton sector from government control as early as 1998 …