that the production process be modernized and the ginner profoundly reformed if cotton is to play a major role in poverty …The cotton sector in Mali is facing major challenges to overcome, with low export prices, technical hurdles, and a … poorly performing state-owned cotton ginner. Some reforms, most notably with regard to the setting of the farmgate …

conditions. Per capita income fell by one-sixth, poverty rose, and many social indicators worsened. These developments have also …

significantly reduce poverty and unemployment. Growth averaged 3 percent over the last decade. It has been volatile because of the …