The structural adjustment efforts under way since the early 1980s have emphasized the liberalization of agricultural prices and markets and have led to a vigorous debate about the appropriate roles of the private and public sectors. This paper examines the causes of state intervention prior to independence as well as post-independence experience with marketing parastatals and cooperatives in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania...
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1989/12/31
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MADIA Discussion Paper
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8436
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2010/07/01
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Markets, marketing boards, and cooperatives in Africa : issues in adjustment policy
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export crop
Citation
Lele,Uma; Christiansen,Robert E..
Markets, marketing boards, and cooperatives in Africa : issues in adjustment policy (English). Managing Agricultural Development in Africa (MADIA) discussion paper ; no. 11 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/203971468742806155