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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
After many years of poverty and neglect, Mali is today faced with a unique opportunity to develop its rural economy. The rapid expansion of demand for beef in some of the coastal regions of West Africa has recently caught up with the available supply from the interior, and cattle prices have increased dramatically. This price rise has been accentuated by the effects of recent drought which seriously depleted the herds. Consequently, there is enormous incentive for interior regions to find new ways of increasing production which, at the same time, take pressure off their overburdened range-lands. Mali is fortunate in having a resource endowment which has considerable potential in this respect.
Page 442 note 1 This estimate, used by Mali Government statisticians, does not take into account the effects of the 1972–3 drought, which will not be fully assessed for some time.
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Page 450 note 2 An exception has been the significant contribution to animal health, especially vaccination against rinderpest during the late 1960s. Nevertheless, the Malian livestock service has suffered a decline in its operating budget in recent years, and taxes on this sector contribute substantially more to public revenue than is received in turn as government expenditures. One result of this failure to maintain a higher level of health service, especially for new calves, has been the reappearance of rinderpest as an increasing threat to animal health.
Page 450 note 3 Stryker, op. cit. p. 7.
Page 451 note 1 Source: Stryker, op. cit. p. 19.
Page 452 note 1 Ibid. p. 21.
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Page 455 note 2 By comparison, payments to the Government of the Ivory Coast in the coffee and cocoa sector during the 1960s averaged about one-quarter of the value of those exports. See J. Dirck Stryker, ‘Exports and Growth in the Ivory Coast: timber, cocoa, and coffee’ ibid. pp. 11–66.
Page 456 note 1 See Stryker, , ‘Livestock Production and Distribution in the Malian Economy’, pp. 42–4,Google Scholar for a more detailed analysis of the incidence of the Government's export tax.
