Looting Africa the economics of exploitation Patrick Bond

Zed Books
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Year of publishing: 2006
Place of publishing: Scottsville, South Africa
ISBN: 1842778129
Language: English

Přes veškerou rétoriku, populace subsaharské Afriky neustále chudne. Od Komise pro Afriku iniciované Tonym Blairem, odpuštění dluhů ministry financí G7, koncerty Live 8, kampaň Make Poverty History, sliby G8 z Glenaeagles po summit Spojených národů v roce 2005 a kolo jednání WTO v Hong Kongu se úspěchy Afriky omezily na veřejné vztahy. Hlavními problémy zůstávají vykořisťovatelský dluh a finanční vztahy s bohatým severem, domnělá pomoc, nespravedlivý obchod, překroucené investice a odliv mozků. Ve většině afrických zemí byl kapitalismus svědkem vzniku velmi mocné vládnoucí elity s příjmy získanými z parazitujícího hromadění financí. Toto kniha se vyhýná přehnanému zdůrazňování chyb těchto elit a dává do kontextu odliv bohatství z Afriky v rámci stagnující leč nestálé světové ekonomiky.

Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become 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 book contextualises Africa's wealth outflow within a stagnant but volatile world economy.

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