Development by Free Trade? : the Impact of the European Union's neoliberal agenda on the North African Countries = Développement à travers le libre-échange? : Les enjeux de l’Agenda Néolibéral de l’Union européenne pour les pays de l’Afrique du Nord / Gisela Baumgratz, Khaled Chaabane, Werner Ruf, Wilfried Telkämper (eds./dir.)
Publication details: Bruxelles : P.I.E. Peter Lang , 2017 Description: 286 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 978-2-8076-0253-3Other title: Développement à travers le libre-échange? : Les enjeux de l’Agenda Néolibéral de l’Union européenne pour les pays de l’Afrique du NordSubject(s): Relaciones comerciales | Aspectos económicos | Política económica | Inmigración | Tratados internacionales | Unión Europea | África septentrionalAbstract: One year ago the negotiations between Tunisia and the European Union about a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA) had started in Tunis. Experts from both sides of the Mediterranean accepted to contribute to this book in order to foster the public debate in the North-African countries by informing actors of the civil society about the risks of this new generation of free trade agreements of the EU for the respective countries and their population. In fact, by analyzing the impact of the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria since the late 1980s followed up by the EU’s free trade policy, the authors seriously doubt about the positive effects on development and prosperity promised by the promotors of free trade. They underline, on the contrary, that it is the EU which profits from the asymmetric power-relations in order to pursue its economic and especially its security interests related to "illegal migration".| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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One year ago the negotiations between Tunisia and the European Union about a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA) had started in Tunis. Experts from both sides of the Mediterranean accepted to contribute to this book in order to foster the public debate in the North-African countries by informing actors of the civil society about the risks of this new generation of free trade agreements of the EU for the respective countries and their population. In fact, by analyzing the impact of the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria since the late 1980s followed up by the EU’s free trade policy, the authors seriously doubt about the positive effects on development and prosperity promised by the promotors of free trade. They underline, on the contrary, that it is the EU which profits from the asymmetric power-relations in order to pursue its economic and especially its security interests related to "illegal migration".
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