Cotton production is truly a success story in West and performatnce wvill also depend on the implications of Central Africa. The region is now the second largest cotton sector policies in major producing couLltries stich exporter of lint, after the Unired States, with a world as the United States, the Europeani Unioni, and China. market share of 15 percenit. Despite its strong This paper exanmines how the above factors may affect performanice in the past, the sector is characterized by furtIre growth of the region's cotton industry. It also several institutional and strLictuiral weaknesses that identifies the chaniges that are required to eniable jeopardize its viability in aii era of increasinig countries in the regioni to fullyv exploit the sector's globalization of the cotton industry. The sector's future significant growth potential .
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This paper examines the impact of health expenditures on agricultural labour productivity in order to inform the necessary policy decisions about targeting scarce public resources towards their most effective uses. We link health sector expenditures in rural Tanzania to health outcomes and agricultural labour productivity using data from the 2008 Household Budget Survey (10,975 households) and the 2007/08 Agricultural Census (52,594 households) across 113 districts in Tanzania. The results indicate that the marginal productivity of labour as well as land and fertilisers respond significantly to health expenditures. However, the magnitude of the response varies across types of disease, categories of expenditures and agricultural inputs. These findings suggest both the need and scope for targeting public expenditures in the health sector to achieve better agricultural growth outcomes.
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