... African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) ensure that states that marketise, liberalise, priva- tise, de-subsidise, deregulate, and do not undermine US foreign policy, receive trade preferences.24 Many African countries under ...
... priva- tizing state-held agricultural land and opening the country to foreign investment. Despite these moves, during the 1980s Algeria faced a ris- ing Islamic populism, Berber unrest, and a severe shortage of consumer goods. In ...