The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and … analyzing the effect of predetermined macroeconomic variables on Chinese cotton market. First, a global overview of cotton … follow the paper analyses what factors and to which extent they may have affected Chinese cotton production, consumption and …

of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … redistributing from those involved in the production of textiles and clothing to the producers of cotton. The core analysis of the … statistics designed to assess the export status of cotton, whether in raw or processed form. Findings – The paper reviews the …

went on to find that subsidies to cotton producers exceeded the U.S. reduction commitment in the Agreement on Agriculture … the Doha Development Round. The Cotton report reclassifies from the green box (permitted subsidies) to the amber box …, even in the absence of U.S. cotton policy, world cotton prices may be distorted from widespread use of subsidies by other …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and … analysing the effect of predetermined macroeconomic variables on Chinese cotton market. First, a global overview of cotton … follow the paper analyses what factors and to which extent they may have affected Chinese cotton production, consumption and …

This study has critically examined the issue of Cotton subsidies in USA as well made a comparative analysis of cotton …-distorting subsidies of USA but was on account of upward trend in cotton production in India and China in defiance of market signals. This … sector between USA and India in the background of USA claim that African Cotton producers' plight was not due to the trade …

in colonial tropical Africa. We conduct an in-depth case study of the 'cotton revolution' in colonial Uganda to put the … for Uganda's 'cotton revolution'. We also provide evidence at a unique spatial micro-level, by capitalizing on detailed …/grain' zones cannot explain the widespread adoption of cotton in Uganda. We argue, instead, that the key to the cotton revolution …

In the 19th century, the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association (CBA) coordinated the dramatic growth of Liverpool's raw … cotton market. This article shows how the CBA achieved this through the development of a private order institutional … largest raw cotton market in the world. The article's findings demonstrate and quantify the importance of nonstate actors, in …

the assertion that developing countries are negatively affected by U.S. cotton subsidies, our focus is the price … countries worse off, this effect is lessened when global prices respond accordingly. If subsidies are eliminated, China’s cotton …We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given …

into local producer prices for four agricultural product markets in Tanzania: sugar, cotton, wheat and rice. The changes in …