Trump's tariff's impact on Africa and the ambiguous role of African agency
Abstract: The international discussion of Trump's dispute over import tariffs for steel, aluminum and even cars is so far focused on the big global players. However, African countries suffer in particular from the planned punitive tariffs, similar to the famous African proverb: 'When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers'. After years of talk on partnership for economic development (AGOA, Cotonou Agreement, EPAs, etc.) Trump’s tariffs mean a severe blow to participatory foreign trade and sustainable industrialization in Africa. Egypt and South Africa for example, the potentially most affected African countries, face massive job losses and earning opportunities, with all the consequences that this entails for their already fragile economy and the population in dire poverty. Trump’s intervention thus joins the continued power politics of former colonial powers vis à vis Africa. Nevertheless, despite these asymmetric power relations, unfair trade relations and the desolate state of Afri
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Trump's Zölle, deren Auswirkungen auf Afrika und die zwiespältige Rolle afrikanischer Agency
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Preprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Review of African Political Economy ; 45 (2018) 157
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Wirtschaft
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Mannheim
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2018
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Kohnert, Dirk
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58089-9
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- 2018
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