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Title:India-Africa Economic Relations: The Case of Bilateral Relations between India and Kenya
Authors:Ramchandani, Ram R.ISNI
Biswas, AparajitaISNI
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.
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