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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, Richard |
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] |