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Africa's food crisis
Apartheid South Africa
Author_Ray Bush
Books about the Global South
Books on Neoliberalism
capital flows from global south
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Commission for Africa
creation of poverty
Critique of World Bank
Department for International Development (UK)
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Farming in Africa
Food insecurity
foreign direct investment
G8 and poverty
Global Millennium Development Goals
International Fund for Agricultural Development
land dispossession of poor
mineral exploitation
Mining in Africa
Neoliberalism and poverty
Poverty in North Africa
Poverty in the Middle East
Tony Blair and Africa
Underdevelopment of the global south
United Nations Development Programme
Western Imperialism and poverty
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- ISBN 9780745319605
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why do so many people worldwide suffer hunger and poverty when there is enough food and other resources globally to prevent it? This book shows how famine and food insecurity are an essential part of modern capitalism.
Although trade, debt relief and development initiatives are important, they do not alter the structure of the global economy and poverty continues to be created by processes like privatisation, trade liberalisation and market reform. Despite the 'end poverty' rhetoric of the World Bank and the G8, these high levels of poverty sustain Western wealth and power. Is there any hope for change? Using case studies from Egypt and North Africa, Nigeria, Sudan and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, Ray Bush illustrates that there is resistance to neoliberal policies, and that struggles over land, mining and resources can shape real alternatives to existing globalisation.
Although trade, debt relief and development initiatives are important, they do not alter the structure of the global economy and poverty continues to be created by processes like privatisation, trade liberalisation and market reform. Despite the 'end poverty' rhetoric of the World Bank and the G8, these high levels of poverty sustain Western wealth and power. Is there any hope for change? Using case studies from Egypt and North Africa, Nigeria, Sudan and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, Ray Bush illustrates that there is resistance to neoliberal policies, and that struggles over land, mining and resources can shape real alternatives to existing globalisation.
Ray Bush is Professor of African Studies and Development Politics, University of Leeds. He is the author of Poverty and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2007).
