Africa in the Global Economy

Gorden Moyo is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. At the same time Dr Moyo is the Head of an independent think tank- the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe. He also serves as a member of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum Technical Group on Public Financial Management on a pro-bono basis. He received his PhD in African Leadership Development from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. Moyo is a Chevening Scholar whose primary research interests are in global finance, international economic relations, Emerging Markets and Developing Economies, public leadership, and military commercialism among others. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters.  His most recent book is titled Making Politics in Zimbabwe’s Second Republic: The Formative Project by Emmerson Mnangagwa (2023), which he co-edited with Prof Kirk Helliker. Moyo has served in the Government of Zimbabwe as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals; and Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe (2009-2015).

• Chapter 1. Entrapment of Africa in an Asymmetrical Global Economy.- Chapter 2. Multinational Corporations and Tax Havens as Beneficiaries of a Shadow Financial System.- Chapter 3. World Bank, IMF and WTO as Agents of Financial Imperialism.- Chapter 4. The Tyranny of the International Credit Rating Agencies.- Chapter 5. International Financial Subordination and the Pathologies of Sovereign Debt.- Chapter 6.   Imperial Ecocide and the Bane of Global Climate Finance.- Chapter 7. Africa and the Age of Global Elites-the “Davos Men”.- Chapter 8. African Elites as Clients of the Offshore World.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Canvass for a Decolonial African Agency.