In West Africa, approximately 16 million people depend directly or indirectly on cotton cultivation. Cotton plays a … "cotton system." Since the World Trade Organization's 2003 Ministerial Conference in Cancun, the actors in the international … community have recognized the crucial need to address the cotton crisis in an "ambitious, rapid and specific" manner. At the end …

In West Africa, approximately 16 million people depend directly or indirectly on cotton cultivation. But subsidies in … the developed world have suppressed cotton prices and have made it difficult for West African producers to compete … social importance of cotton in West Africa. It retraces the consultation process on the West African cotton crisis with the …

Productivity is commonly defined as a ratio between the volume of output and the volume of inputs. In other words, it … of output. Broadly, productivity measures can be classified as single factor productivity measures (relating a measure of … output to a single measure of input, e.g. labour productivity) or multifactor productivity measures (relating a measure of …