Download or read book Should Sub Saharan Africa Expand Cotton Exports written by Jonathan Roger Coleman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Should Sub Saharan Africa Expand Cotton Exports written by Daniel A. Benitez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, cotton production in sub - Saharan Africa expanded significantly. Annual production growth averaged 4.7 percent between 1980 and 1990, compared with only 1.2 percent for 1964-79. At the same time, cotton exports grew an average 8 percent a year, compared with almost no growth between 1964 and 1979. Concern has been expressed, at the World Bank and elsewhere, about the adding-up problem of expanding exports for commodities that are highly price-inelastic. The concern has been that export expansion - as a result of project loans or structural adjustment programs - could lead to a fall in world prices and an overall reduction in export revenues. The authors assess whether expansion of cotton exports in sub - Saharan African countries has produced an adding-up problem. They test the hypothesis that export expansion has led, or will lead, to a decline in the terms of trade, which would offset any benefits from export expansion. Their results reject this hypothesis. Using comparative static analysis - comparing sub - Saharan Africa's export share with estimated world demand elasticies - they show that sub - Saharan Africa's 14 percent share of world exports is too small relative to the estimated price elasticity of demand (ranging from -0.2 to -0.3) to produce an adding-up problem. Using an econometric model of the world fibers market, the authors show that maintaining the high 1980s growth rate of cotton exports in the 1990s would increase sub-Saharan African export revenues more than 50 percent by the end of the decade, compared with base-case projections. And, except when the price elasticity of world cotton demand is lowered substantially below its estimated value, estimates of the elasticity of export revenue relative to export volume were close enough to unity for the authors to conclude that an adding-up problem does not exist for expanded cotton exports in sub-Saharan Africa. Their analysis also shows that the structural adjustment programs implemented in the 1980s are unlikely to have had a significant adverse impact on the world cotton market. A 20 percent real devaluation for all of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, leads to an average 0.4 percent decline in the world price of cotton, while a 20 percent increase in producer cotton prices in all sub-Saharan African countries leads to a 0.8 percent decline in the world price.

Download or read book Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa written by David Lawrence Tschirley and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an empirically based, analytical assessment of the experience of reform in nine countries across Sub Saharan Africa representing a range of cotton sector structures, a must-read for all persons with a serious interest in an empirical evaluation of the performance of cotton industry structures in Africa.

Download or read book Sub Saharan Africa written by Mr.Sanjeev Gupta and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the impact on trade in sub-Saharan Africa of the recent rapid growth in China and other Asian countries, and the associated commodity price boom? This paper looks at how trading patterns (both destinations and composition) are changing in sub-Saharan Africa. Has the region managed to diversify the products it sells from commodities to manufactured goods? Has it expanded the range of countries to which it exports? And what about the import side? The time is ripe for sub-Saharan African countries to climb up the value chain of their commodity-based exports and/or achieve an export surge based on labor-intensive manufacturing.

Download or read book Cotton Colonialism and Social History in Sub Saharan Africa written by Allen F. Isaacman and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1995 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection brings together recent scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial period. The social history of cotton in Africa thus provides an opportunity to take a constant in the changing worlds of colonialism - cotton - and to explore a range of African experiences historically and geographically.

Download or read book Can Sub Saharan Africa Leap Into Global Network Trade written by Uma Subramanian and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines opportunities for Sub-Saharan African countries to effectively participate in globalization, particularly given the increasing interest of China and India in Sub-Saharan Africa. How can Sub-Saharan Africa fully engage and gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past 15 years Asia has become Africa's fastest growing export market. Asian countries are much more open to trade than Europe or America. There seems to be no evidence to suggest that this trend will not continue in the near future. The authors acknowledge the numerous caveats in Asia's growing interest in the African continent, not least the "resource curse" of exports that are heavily concentrated on oil, minerals, and raw materials, as well as the fierce competition from Asia's cheap manufactured exports. However, they believe that there is strong evidence to suggest a clear potential for South-South cooperation in trade and investment. Drawing on evidence from their extensive research into international value chains, the authors identify five critical factors for effective participation in global network trade: price, speed-to-market, labor productivity, flexibility, and product quality. Underlying competitive performance of these critical factors are a country's policies and institutions. Effective policies, efficient institutions, and the necessary infrastructure will ensure the best outcome for trading countries. To improve the depth and sustainability of these five critical factors, it is important that developing countries create a supportive policy and institutional framework from the outset.

Download or read book Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa written by David Tschirley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an empirically based, analytical assessment of the experience of reform in nine countries across Sub Saharan Africa representing a range of cotton sector structures, a must-read for all persons with a serious interest in an empirical ev.

Download or read book Cotton in Africa written by Uma J. Lele and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of state-federal relations in developing agricultural economies must first address such issues as the overall role of government, the need for public administrative suppport and the relative roles of state and federal governments during agricultural transformation. After examining the historical antecedents of local-state-federal relations in agricultural development, this paper presents an analytical normative model suggesting guidelines for assigning fiscal responsibilities for agricultural programs among tiers of the government. It then examines empirical evidence against the background of the analytical model; isolates the critical issues in government relations in Nigerian agriculture; and makes some recommendations that may guide relationships in the future. The next sections present a brief sketch of historical antecedents and an analytical model of the criteria for assigning responsibilities for agriculture between state and federal governments. The paper then examines the empirical evidence, while the final section isolates the critical issues in local-state-federal relations in Nigerian agriculture.

Download or read book Planning for Development in Sub Saharan Africa written by Ann Willcox Seidman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1974 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on economic planning and economic policy decision making in English speaking Africa - proposes a model of underdevelopment, and covers export promotion, social structure and economic development, industrial development strategies, agrarian structure, trade policy and commercial policy, financial policy, etc. References.

Download or read book Sub Saharan Africa written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3. Investing in people.

Download or read book Wealthier is Healthier written by Lant Pritchett and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Population Growth Externalities and Poverty written by Nancy Birdsall and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interest Rates Growth and External Debt written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Simple r Algebra of Pension Plans written by Dimitri Vittas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unless the real rate of interest exceeds the growth rate of real wages by a significant margin, payment of a reasonable pension rate requires a high contribution rate or a high active worklife ratio.

Download or read book The Regulation and Structure of Non life Insurance in the United States written by Martin Francis Grace and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intertemporal and Interspatial Comparisons of Income written by Sultan Ahmad and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finishing Global Farm Trade Reform written by Kym Anderson and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reviews policy developments in recent years and, in the light of that, explores ways in which further consensus might be reached among WTO members to reduce farm trade distortions – and thereby also progress the multilateral trade reform agenda. Particular attention is given to ways that would boost well-being in developing countries, especially for those food-insecure households still suffering from poverty and hunger.