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Recent trends and prospects for agricultural commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Takamasa Akiyama
  • Larson, Donald F.

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Sub - Sahran African (SSA) countries have seen sharp declines in their shares of agricultural export markets. But their export dependence on the most important crops - coffee and cocoa - has increased. Comparisons in the region and with countries outside the region show the importance of appropriate exchange rates and producer pricing policies, as well as support for technological advancement, for good performance in these sectors. Some countries have successfully introduced changes in these policy areas. Changes are also needed in domestic marketing systems to enable flexible responses to market demands in such areas as quality. For their major agricultural export products - coffee, cocoa, cotton, groundnut oil, palm oil, sugar and tobacco - prospects for world market growth and for increases in SSA's market shares are generally only fair. So, without further policy changes to improve performance, the regions'agricultural income terms of trade for these commodities is expected to recoveronly slowly from the sharp decline after 1985.

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  • Takamasa Akiyama & Larson, Donald F., 1989. "Recent trends and prospects for agricultural commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 348, The World Bank.
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    1. Akiyama, Takamasa & Varangis, Panayotis, 1989. "Impact of the International Coffee Agreement's export quota system on the World's coffee market," Policy Research Working Paper Series 148, The World Bank.
    2. Humphreys, Charles & Underwood, John, 1989. "The external debt difficulties of low income Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 255, The World Bank.
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    1. Coleman, Jonathan R.*Thigpen, M. Elton, 1993. "Should sub-Saharan Africa expand cotton exports?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1139, The World Bank.
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    3. Yeats, Alexander J., 1991. "Do natural resource-based industrialization strategies convey important (unrecognized) price benefits for commodity-exporting developing countries?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 580, The World Bank.
    4. Ali, Ridwan & Alwang, Jeffrey & Siegel, Paul B., 1991. "Is export diversification the best way to achieve export growth and stability? A look at three African countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 729, The World Bank.

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