Looting Africa

The Economics of Exploitation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Av Patrick Bond

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Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to 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 book contextualises Africa's wealth outflow within a stagnant but volatile world economy.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-06-28
Mått135 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781842778128

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Patrick Bond, a political economist, is research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban where he directs the Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs). He is also visiting professor at York University Department of Political Science in Toronto and Gyeongsang National University Institute of Social Sciences in South Korea. He previously taught at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Yokohama National University Department of Economics and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

List of Figures, List of TablesPreface and Acknowledgements1. Poor Africa: Two Views2. Global Uneven and Combined Development: Neoliberalism, Stagnation, Financial Viability3. Financial Inflows and Outflows: Phantom Aid, Debt Peonage Capital Flight4. Unequal Exchange Revisited: Trade, Investment, Wealth Depletion5. Global Apartheid's African Agents: Homegrown Neoliberalism, Repression, Failed Reform6. Militarism and Looming Subimperialism in Africa - Washington, London, Pretoria7. Civil Society Resistance: Two ViewsNotesIndex

'Patrick Bond's book provides a solid theoretical, empirical, and analytical framework showing and proving that the processes of looting the African continent, which started with the slave trade, have continued to this day'. Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania'A brilliant analysis and timely expose of the rapacious forces ranged against Africans today.' John Pilger‘An important contribution to the political analysis of the continent, as viewed on the inside.' ComAfrica, Brazil'This is a sophisticated book for a non-specialist audience, filled with rage at the self-serving drivel that passes for analysis of Africa in the mainstream and the deaths it is responsible for.' Ken Olende, Socialist Review