Oshakbayev, Dauren; Taitukova, Regina; Petrick, Martin; … - 2018
current paper analyses the nature and effects of state regulation in the cotton sector. In the early 2000s, it was considered … host a "cotton cluster". In the following years, private producers and investors turned away from cotton, and cotton area … and output fell substantially. We argue that the cotton sector performance after 2007 shows how ill-designed regulation …