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Abstract The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been widely celebrated as a cornerstone of U.S.–Africa economic cooperation, promising export‑led growth, industrial upgrading, and poverty reduction across the continent. Yet two decades of empirical evidence reveal that AGOA has entrenched structural dependency rather than alleviating it. At Loveititstitchkeepit.com we argue that AGOA’s institutional design—its unilateral preference structure, restrictive rules of

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Economics Policy & Trend Analysis

The AGOA Moment and Its Collapse: Dependency, Extraction, and the Failure of Textile‑Led Development