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Title: | India-Africa Economic Relations: The Case of Bilateral Relations between India and Kenya |
Authors: | Ramchandani, Ram R. Biswas, Aparajita |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | African Currents |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 11 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 58-85 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | India Kenya |
Subjects: | international economic relations international trade Politics and Government international relations Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | This examination of India-Kenya economic relations is placed in the context of building bilateral relations amongst postcolonial Third World States as equals against the backdrop of Third World demand for the establishment of a New International Economic Order freed from the North-South dominant-dependence paradigm. It indicates that the earlier colonial rationale underlying India-Kenya economic relations had, by the end of the 1970s, yielded some way to a pattern of relations independent of colonial underpinnings. However, expanding trading trends, joint ventures and other forms of production cooperation were somewhat constrained in the 1980s as a result of the crisis affecting the Kenyan economy and a reversal in Kenya's balance of trade with India. Nonetheless, the interaction between India and Kenya has shown that cooperation in such fields as small-scale industry, and food and agriculture related technologies can aid a country like Kenya. The experience of India-Africa economic relations has also gone some way in evolving a frame of reference outside the exploitative colonial mould. Tables detailing India's trade with Kenya (1960-1986), India's exports of major commodities to Kenya (1970-1982), and India-Kenya production cooperation including joint ventures (1968-1980) are included in an appendix. |