 Free competition without sustainable development? Tanzanian cotton sector liberalisation, 1994/95 to 1997/98Peter Gibbon Journal of Development Studies, 1999, vol. 36, issue 1, 128-150 Abstract: This article summarises the results of fieldwork carried out in 1997/8 season on post-liberalisation changes in the Tanzanian cotton sector. Developments in primary marketing, ginning and the export trade are reviewed on the basis of survey material. Market entry by private companies has been high, leading to considerable competition and slight increases in producers' share of the world price. But real producer price and cultivation increases have not been sustained. Following changes in the input supply system, insecticide use has fallen sharply, along with the quality and underlying international price of the cotton crop. Tanzania's place in the world market has been re-defined as a producer for a specific time-based 'market window'. This places a question mark over the sustainability of the sector's future, and by inference over policy reforms whose main emphasis is to increase competition. Date: 1999 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:36:y:1999:i:1:p:128-150 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00220389908422615 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Development Studies is currently edited by Howard White, Oliver Morrissey and Ken Shadlen More articles in Journal of Development Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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