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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
economics, econometrics and finance
The Burkinabè cotton story 1992-2007: Sustainable success or sub-saharan mirage?
World Development, Volume 39, No. 8, Year 2011
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Like many other African countries in the early 1990s, Burkina Faso was urged to engage in a far-reaching liberalization of its state-led cotton sector. Instead it engaged in more gradual and sequenced reforms characterized by institutional innovations and partial privatization. But while the reforms coincided with a threefold increase in cotton exports in the space of a decade, there is heated debate about whether the reforms truly induced sustainable growth. In addition to reviewing existing evidence, this paper develops a counterfactual analysis to more rigorously assess the reform's impacts after accounting for the confounding influence of exogenous shocks and centrally administered farmgate prices. The paper shows that while many elements of the reform process did achieve important economic objectives, return migration from Côte d'Ivoire explains around a third of production growth, financial elements of the reforms were not fully sustainable, and institutional arrangements failed to fully empower cotton farmers. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Kaminski, Jonathan
Israel, Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Headey, Derek D.
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
International Food Policy Research Institute
Bernard, Tanguy
Senegal, Dakar
International Food Policy Research Institute
Statistics
Citations: 44
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.12.003
ISSN:
0305750X
Study Locations
Burkina Faso
Ivory Coast