The focus of this study is on the role played by the Western third-world movement in the 1970s and 1980s. The African continent’s share of total macroeconomic performance plummeted, and decades of lavish aid assistance payments ended up with Africa’s ill-fated exclusion from world trade. How was it that instead of promoting trade, Africa was given foreign aid? Andrea Franc explores this question.

This book is included in DOAB.