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 …

production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world's major regions, is now … intensified. Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa illuminates the connections between Africa and the … Africa, the cotton commodity chain. From global policy debates, to impacts on the natural environment, to the economic and …