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Looting Africa : the economics of exploitation / Patrick Bond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bond, Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Economic aspects--Africa.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Africa.
- Globalization--Political aspects--Africa.
- Africa--Foreign economic relations.
- Africa.
- Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Despite the rhetoric, the people of sub-Saharan Africa are becoming poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission, the G7 finance ministers' debt relief, the Live 8 concerts, the Make Poverty History campaign and the G8 Gleneagles promises, to the United Nations 2005 summit and the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain: exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment, capital flight and the continent's brain/skills drain. Moreover, capitalism in most African countries has witnessed the emergence of excessively powerful ruling elites. While noting their role as collaborators, this book contextualizes Africa's wealth outflow within a stagnant yet financially volatile world economy."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Poor Africa: two views
- Uneven and combined development: neoliberalism, stagnation, and financial volatility
- Financial inflows and outflows: phantom aid, debt peonage, capital flight
- Unequal exchange revisited: trade, investment, wealth depletion
- Global apartheid's African agents: home-grown neoliberalism, repression, failed reform
- Militarism and looming subimperialism in Africa: Washington, London, Pretoria
- Civil society resistance: two views.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611215644
- 9781350221185
- 135022118X
- 9781848137288
- 1848137281
- 9781780327006
- 1780327005
- 9781281215642
- 1281215643
- 9781848130715
- 1848130716
- OCLC:
- 313637396
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