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Title:The Balance Sheet on External Assistance: France in Africa
Author:Grey, Robert D.ISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:28
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:101-114
Language:English
Geographic terms:French-speaking Africa
Subsaharan Africa
France
Africa
Subjects:economic development
development cooperation
defence
Inter-African Relations
Politics and Government
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/160903
Abstract:This paper tests the proposition that there are substantial benefits to African States from close relationships with one or more external powers, as well as costs, by determining the impact of France, first on the security of African States, and subsequently on their development and autonomy. An examination of appropriate data demonstrates that African States with defence treaties with France, and especially those with French bases on their soil, have been relatively free from both external aggression and internal unrest. However, there is a substantially greater propensity for coups among the francophone States. In the economic sphere, there is evidence of a positive albeit weak relationship between French aid and trade and higher rates of economic growth prior to the 1980s. Thereafter, however, the relationship between aid and growth disappears, while that between trade and growth becomes strongly negative. The most obvious additional costs of dependency stem from a lack of State autonomy. Notes, ref.
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