The Lomé Convention: updated dependence or departure toward collective self-reliance?

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Title:	The Lomé Convention: updated dependence or departure toward collective self-reliance?
Author:	Green, Reginald Herbold
Year:	1976
Periodical:	The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs
Volume:	6
Issue:	1
Pages:	43-54
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	European Union Lomé Convention
Abstract:	The ACP-EEC (African Caribbean Pacific - Euro-pean Economic Community) Convention of Lomé has been, is and will continue to be important from a Third World perspectve. This view is shared by proponents as will as critics. From moderate reformist viewpoint Lomé is a major advance; from a structural change stance its meaning depends on the actual results in transforming raw material into procesed exports and broadening internal economic integration from a systematic transformation optic it is a first step potentially of importance psychologically and in creating a dynamic if it can be built upon. Another point is that European and ACP perceptions of the road to Lomé and of the Convention are not the same. How commited the Commision and the Mine are to the view that they are, in and of themselves, an arrival and how much the ACP States can win acceptance that they are merely the scart of a dynamic of change, is unclear. From an Africa - centred perspective the question is to what end the Convention will serve: the evolution of dependence or the initiation of steps towards interdependence and collective self-reliance? Notes.