Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy.
This paper examines the extent to which South Korea’s developmental aid programme to Africa can be understood as a form of ‘aid as imperialism’. We argue against the depiction of a crude determinism between the ‘interests of capital’ and the international activism of the South Korean state through a...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 649 - 665 |
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