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 …

excessive and inefficient irrigation practices. In this paper, we survey 619 cotton producers in the region and analyse their …

international civil aviation and protectionism against foreign trade. We use weighted air liberalization index (WALI) as a proxy for … trade restrictiveness index (OTRI) as proxies for the level of protectionism in a country’s foreign trade. Correlation …