Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation by Patrick Bond

Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation by Patrick Bond

Author:Patrick Bond [Bond, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Political Science, Political Economy, Business & Economics, Development, Economic Development
ISBN: 9781848137288
Google: BQxjDgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1842778110
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2006-10-13T23:00:00+00:00


Figure 5.1 African fiscal deficits, 1990—2003

Source: International Monetary Fund (2005), Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, Washington, May, p. 4.

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During 2005 the World Bank began to highlight the need for renewed neoliberal ‘leadership’ in Africa, with Paul Wolfowitz hosting Nelson Mandela at the Bank/IMF annual meetings in September, stressing African elite power. But serious embarrassments befell the Blair government in its attempt to find reliable African elite partners in 2005. Manchester professor of politics Paul Cammack described the nine chosen to join the Commission for Africa as



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