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Chapter 1. Entrapment of Africa in an Asymmetrical Global Economy -- Chapter 2. Multinational Corporations and Tax Havens as Beneficiaries of a Shadow Financial System -- Chapter 3. World Bank, IMF and WTO as Agents of Financial Imperialism -- Chapter 4. The Tyranny of the International Credit Rating Agencies -- Chapter 5. International Financial Subordination and the Pathologies of Sovereign Debt -- Chapter 6. Imperial Ecocide and the Bane of Global Climate Finance -- Chapter 7. Africa and the Age of Global Elites-the "Davos Men" -- Chapter 8. African Elites as Clients of the Offshore World -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Canvass for a Decolonial African Agency.

"This book offers any senior level executive an understanding of the core fundamentals of Cyber Risk, which is critical for any business to remain sustainable and viable in the information age era of disruptive cyber-attacks. For any executive to understand that Cyber Risk is like any other business risk, it needs to be explained in focused non-technical terms. The book provides core foundational precepts of cyber risk that will enable executive leadership to make well-informed decisions along with their senior cyber security executives regarding cyber risk management. In addition, describes the different approaches by executives to cyber risk. There are three types of executive leadership: (1) hindsight, (2) foresight, or (3) none of the two. This book shows how to be a cyber risk leader through foresight while maintaining the corporation's vision and objectives (proactive vs. reactive)"--

This book is an open invitation to the enterprise of re-imagining an alternative decolonial development project in Africa. It does this by focusing on the triple themes of African agency, development finance, and African developmental states in the context of an emerging multipolar world system. The book must be read as an affirmatively disruptive inquiry into the twin evils of global coloniality and global capitalist economic relations that have kept Africa on the lower rungs of the global pecking order, thereby preventing the rooting of an alternative development paradigm on the continent. As such, the book seeks to contribute towards the project of extricating the financing of development in Africa from the clutches of the Global North and the emerging powers of the Global South. In this way, it is a call for Afro-rebellion against the old and new forms of global coloniality and global capitalism. While the book is of major interest to scholars and students of African Studies, Development Studies, International Development Cooperation, International Relations, International Trade and Investment, Diplomacy, AfricaChina Relations, and Political Science, it is equally meant for the general reader as it assumes no prior knowledge in any of the field of enquiry other than interest in the development of the African continent. Gorden Moyo is Senior Lecturer at Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. He is also Founder of an independent think tankthe Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRIZ). He received his Ph. D. in African Leadership Development from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He is Former Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office, and Former Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, Zimbabwe. He has edited three books and published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds-from aging populations to scarce resources to unsustainable debt burdens. Hobbled by short-term thinking and ideological dogma, democracies risk falling prey to nationalism and protectionism that will deliver declining living standards. In Edge of Chaos, Dambisa Moyo shows why economic growth is essential to global stability, and why liberal democracies are failing to produce it today. Rather than turning away from democracy, she argues, we must fundamentally reform it. Edge of Chaos presents a radical blueprint for change in order to galvanize growth and ensure the survival of democracy in the twenty-first century.--Publisher

African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The Framing of African Immigrantsas the Problematic Aliens -- Introduction -- Interrogating the of African Immigrants -- Organisation of the Book -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Migration Context and Contestations -- Introduction -- The Contestation -- Theorising African Immigrantsas the Threatening Other -- Deconstruction -- African Immigrant Traders and Humanistic Geography -- Johannesburg Inner City -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Global Contexts, African Immigrants, Traders and the Johannesburg Inner City Milieu -- Introduction -- Global Contexts -- South African Immigrations and the Case of African Immigrants -- African Immigrant Traders -- Urban Informality and African Immigrant Traders -- Employment Creation, Revenue Generation and Support for the Formal Economy -- Transnational Character of African Immigrant Traders and the Provision of Choice for Consumers -- Revitalising the Decaying Johannesburg Inner City Economy -- Contribution to the Achievement of South African Development Goals -- Destructive and Productive Immigrant Traders -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Historical Perspectives on Migration and the Xenophobia Discourse -- Introduction -- Immigration Trends: 1910-1948 -- Immigration Trends: 1948-1994 -- Immigration Trajectories After 1994 -- Post-1994 Immigrant Influx and Discourse -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 African Immigrant Traders in Johannesburg Inner City -- Introduction -- Reasons for Migration to South Africa -- Experiences of Discrimination, Hostility and Xenophobia -- Xenophobia -- Discrimination in the Job Market and the Decision to Trade -- African Immigrant Traders in the Johannesburg Inner City -- Registration Status -- Spatial Spread and Organisation

Nach "Dead Aid" (ID-A 45/11) über das Scheitern der Entwicklungshilfe legt die aus Sambia stammende, im Westen ausgebildete Ökonomin noch mal nach mit ihrer Kritik durch eine gründliche Darstellung des Sündenregisters des Westens - vornehmlich der USA. Sie erklärt dabei sehr elementar wirtschaftliche Grundlagen und die Folgen von Verschuldung, Kapitalmangel, Arbeitsmarkt- und demografischen Problemen, das Verhalten von Banken und Konsumenten. Sehr anschaulich als Musterbeispiel für Schwellenländer analysiert sie die Rolle Chinas, das jetzt in ähnlicher Weise agiert wie früher die USA (Protektionismus u.a.). Sie zeigt, wie erfolgreich Kapitalismus in autoritären Regimen funktionieren kann und Mengen- vor Gewinnmaximierung. Viele Fakten aus der jüngeren Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Hinweise und Parallelen auf Vorgänge in anderen Ländern und in Europa belegen auch, dass die wirtschaftliche Führungsposition des Westens bald beendet ist, aber vom Untergang (deutscher Buchtitel) ist noch nicht die Rede. Nach J. Stiglitz (BA 7/10) und E. Sandschneider (ID-B 48/11) eine weitere fundierte Bestätigung. (2) (Elke Günther)