The cereal market of Burkina Faso was liberalised in 1992. At the same time a market information service (SIM) was created to collect data on the supply and demand conditions and, in particular, to disseminate weekly the cereal prices of regional markets by radio. The article evaluates to what...

This article analyses the effect of 10 years of liberalisation policy on price integration in the Beninese maize market. The comparison of price series for two periods, before and after the policy change, shows that the expected positive effect is not confirmed by co-integration analysis. Though...