During the past decade, cotton prices remained considerably below other agricultural prices (although they recovered … toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to …

Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of … Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are …, political will. Chief among them is the persistent divergence between cotton prices and the prices of other agricultural …

This paper analyzes and compares the structure of cotton by-products industries in se-lected countries (Uganda … as feedstocks for biofuels is unlikely to become a new source of growth for the cotton oil market. Third, within the … context of deepening the on-going reform efforts in West and Central African countries, cotton by-products should be taken …

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 authors provide estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its … of GM cotton varieties by other developing countries - especially in Sub-Saharan Africa - could provide even larger … remove cotton subsidies and import tariffs globally …

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 evaluates to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle …

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …