Eligible papers

The Conference will provide a combination of two types of papers and communications selected from researchers' proposals. The first type of papers will deal with the evolution of cotton policies in a selected group of countries (namely India, Pakistan, China, Turkey, Syria, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, USA, European Union and African countries) which have been implementing support policies to cotton. All of these papers will offer historic and economic perspectives in explicating the policy rationales and in analyzing the effects obtained.

The second type of selected papers will deal with the assessment of various effects of cotton policies. Although proposals dealing with the assessment of price distortion will be examined, the Conference Committee will favour communication proposals addressing other effects related to cotton policies and coming from various countries. Analysis of the economic mechanisms responsible to the effectiveness/efficiency being observed will retain particular interest of the Conference Committee.

Other themes of interest are, but not exclusively:

• Cotton policies and direct economic impacts to producers
• Cotton policies and various indirect impacts to producers and non-producers
• Cotton policies and competitiveness promotion
• State and its regulation roles in cotton sectors
• State and multi-stakeholders process to define and implement cotton policies
• State and its role in promoting devices to follow-up the impacts of cotton policies

Papers format, submission deadlines

Only papers for oral communications are accepted.

Paper proposals are selected through extended abstracts of 3 pages maximum, justified text in font size of 12pt, in Times New Roman, single spaced with 6pt between paragraphs. Abstract should show a meaningful title and should not include figure, table or references.

Potential authors are warmly invited to submit their proposals at cmt_ISSCRI

The deadline for abstract submission is fixed at December 20, 2007.

The authors will be informed of the results of the review process by January 31, 2008.

The authors of the retained abstracts will be invited to submit their finalized papers by March 15, 2008. They must comply with the instructions given in this purpose (downloadable here or can be obtained by writing to michel fok )