"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The … authors provide estimates of the potential economic impacts of (1) complete or partial removal of cotton subsidies and import …

"The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control …, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit … the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for …