Aid for Trade and African agriculture: The bittersweet case of Swazi sugar;Aide au commerce et agriculture africaine: Le cas mitigé du sucre swazi

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 41, Issue 140, 2014, Pages 201-215

  Richardson Ngwenya, Pamela ^a   Richardson, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aid for Trade; neoliberalism; post Washington Consensus; smallholders; sugar; Swaziland

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AID FLOW; DEVELOPMENT AID; EUROPEAN UNION; INTERNATIONAL AID; LIBERALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; SUGAR; TRADE FLOW;

EUROPE; SWAZILAND;

CELASTRACEAE;

EID: 84899686024     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: 17401720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2013.872616     Document Type: Article

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