Looting Africa - The Economics of Exploitation (Paperback, illustrated edition)

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 and the continent's brain/skills drain. Moreover, capitalism in most African countries has witnessed the emergence of excessively powerful ruling elites with incomes derived from financial-parasitical accumulation. Without overstressing the 'mistakes' of such elites, this title contextualises Africa's wealth outflow within a stagnant but volatile world economy.

General

Imprint:	University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	August 2006
Authors:	Patrick Bond (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	215 x 138 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	172
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-86914-095-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
LSN:	1-86914-095-8
Barcode:	9781869140953

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