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The Cotton Sector in Mali Trapped in Asset Poverty ?
[Le secteur coton au Mali dans un piège de sous-accumulation ?]

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  • Vincent Geronimi

    (Cemotev - Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Claire Mainguy

    (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GEMDEV - Groupement pour l'Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)

  • Rémi Generoso

    (Cemotev - Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Ibrahima Cisse

    (IER - Institut d'Economie Rurale)

Abstract

We use a dynamic analysis of cotton farms and sector, based on the vulnerability and poverty trap concepts, in order to asses the impacts of the liberalization. We use a sample of a hundred farms from South Mali and highlight a downturn of productive assets between 2003 and 2010. In a period affected by many shocks, the partial liberalization of the cotton sector does not seem to have improved the situation but on the contrary the vulnerability of farmers may have increased.

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  • Vincent Geronimi & Claire Mainguy & Rémi Generoso & Ibrahima Cisse, 2013. "The Cotton Sector in Mali Trapped in Asset Poverty ? [Le secteur coton au Mali dans un piège de sous-accumulation ?]," Post-Print hal-01753874, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01753874
    DOI: 10.3917/med.164.0013
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