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Title:Developing Countries and Market Access: The Bitter-Sweet Taste of the European Unions Sugar Policy in Southern Africa
Author:Gibb, RichardISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:42
Issue:4
Period:December
Pages:563-588
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:European Union
trade policy
agricultural policy
imports
cane sugar
beet sugar
exports
international relations
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876139
Abstract:Neoliberal free-market ideology has been instrumental in the creation of a development strategy based on a belief that agricultural liberalization will benefit developing countries. NGOs and Nepad use the international sugar trade as an exemplar to support their arguments for liberalizing the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and the EU's sugar policy, known as the Common Organization of the Markets in Sugar (Com Sugar) in particular. But it would be naïve to think of liberalization as bringing universal benefits to the developing world. Inevitably, under any system of regulation, market or intervention, there will be a complex pattern of winners and losers. This paper examines the impacts of Europe's sugar policy on southern Africa and finds, somewhat surprisingly, that the region stands to benefit more from a preservation of the status quo than from liberalization. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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