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 … that the production process be modernized and the ginner profoundly reformed if cotton is to play a major role in poverty …

export performance, particularly for diamonds. Efficient aid and public debt management policies have significantly improved …

livestock. Motivated by this clue, and in the absence of any reliable income or employment data, this paper systematically … export ban. It finds that livestock exports play a large economic role as an important source of income and as a store of … value. In the long run, livestock exports are positively associated with nonfood inflation. In the short run, food price …