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Looting Africa : The Economics of Exploitation

Author: Patrick Bond
SKU: 9781842778111

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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 brainskills 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.

  • Classifications: Africa,
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 192 pages

ISBN : 9781842778111

Published : 28 Jun 2006

Author : Patrick Bond

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Zed Books Ltd

Size : 217 x 139 x 11 (mm)

Weight : 300g

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