Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation

by Patrick Bond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842778110
• ISBN13: 9781842778111
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"