The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africas Wealth Burgis TomPaperback
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africas Wealth Burgis TomPaperback One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015The trade in oil, gas, gems,…
Specifikacia The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africas Wealth Burgis TomPaperback
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africas Wealth Burgis TomPaperback
One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent.In his first book, The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other emerging markets have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain.
The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal