APPP Working Paper No. 23. Policy-makers바카라 사이트™ incentives and policy trajectories: Comparing cotton sector reform in four African countries
Abstract
Using the experience of cotton sector reform in four major African cotton producing countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mali), this paper examines ways in which local political, social and economic factors affect policy processes, and policy-makers바카라 사이트™ incentives to improve agricultural sector performance. Countries바카라 사이트™ ability to overcome challenges is due less to the adoption of a particular set of policies 바카라 사이트“ more or less privatization, greater or lower competition 바카라 사이트“ than to the nature and characteristics of the underlying policy process. If a country바카라 사이트™s local realities can sustain coordination among actors, and structure their incentives in ways that are favorable to the good management of the sector, then outcomes are more likely to be positive 바카라 사이트“ whether the country has adopted significant reform, as in Burkina Faso, or more limited change, as in Cameroon. There is no unique set of best factors; rather, there are clusters of factors that seem to work better under some political conditions than others.
Citation
Serra, R. APPP Working Paper No. 23. Policy-makers’ incentives and policy trajectories:Comparing cotton sector reform in four African countries. Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP), London, UK (2012) 28 pp.
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