World Bank Document

Employment and Social Protection of Workers in Agriculture during 2016-2018. The plan 

recognizes the need to improve performance by tackling specific inefficiencies in the cotton value 

chain and by establishing market-driven incentives. Thus, the government intends gradually to 

replace the cotton quota system with market incentives, encouraging farmers to increase 

productivity and to diversify, while stimulating innovation and efficiency. The WBG would 

facilitate this transition towards a market-led and privately-managed reform of the cotton sub-

sector first by advising the government on the design of a modernization program, providing 

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direction for short-, medium-, and long-term policy measures and operational investments, and 

second by helping implement this program. Sequencing issues, institutional options, and pilot 

reforms would receive particular attention.  

 

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