[DOWNLOAD] "Is Africa Still Being Looted?" by Synthesis/Regeneration " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Is Africa Still Being Looted?
- Author : Synthesis/Regeneration
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Science & Nature,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 48 KB
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The continent's own elites, together with the West and now China, are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials. Reinvestment is negligible and the prices, royalties and taxes paid are inadequate to compensate the wasting away of Africa's natural wealth. Anti-extraction campaigns by (un)civil society are the only hope for a reversal of these neocolonial relations. Though it's easy to prove, using even the World Bank's main study of natural resource economics, apparently the looting allegation is controversial. When 1 made it during a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) interview (http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/08/august-10-2010.html), the World Bank's chief economist for Africa, Shanta Devarajan, immediately contradicted me, claiming (twice) that I am not in command of "the facts."