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Title: | Underdevelopment and the Politics of Sierra Leone's Trade Relations |
Author: | Bangura, Yusuf |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 71-91 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | underdevelopment trade policy Economics and Trade Development and Technology Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43658084 |
Abstract: | Very few attempts have so far been made to examine the structure of production relations that give rise to specific commercial relations and to unravel the concrete class-agencies that are involved in the production and international exchange of commodities. The author argues that trade theories maintaining that all nations, and by implication all social classes, benefit from free trade are class-blind and unrealistic. The same applies to theories that emphasise country exploitation through trade. Both approaches fail to see the specific connections between trade and production and the manner in which trade serves specific interests in the capitalist system of production. It is in this context that the author reviews underdevelopment and the polities of Sierra Leone's trade relations: Trade and underdevelopment - The Sierra Leone state and capitalist development - The crisis of underdevelopment, agricultural transformation and trade diversification towards China. Ref., sum. in French, tab. |