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Concepts and Strategies of Economic Independence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Dharam P. Ghai
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There are few objectives considered more compelling by developing countries than the need to attain their economic freedom. Throughout the Third World, from Bolivia and Botswana to Burma, few themes arouse such mass enthusiasm as the clarion call to economic independence. However, despite its potency in shaping many national goals and policies, very little intellectual effort has been expended in analysing the concept and exploring its ramifications in the realms of politics, economics, or sociology.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 21 - 42
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