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Author(s):	Tom Burgis

Date:	2015-03-24	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1610394399
Pages:	352	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other emerging markets have transformed their economies, Africas resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the worlds reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the worlds 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. The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal political cabals to loot the states' value. And the vagaries of resource-dependent economies could pitch Africas new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they climbed out of it. The ground beneath their feet is as precarious as a Congolese mine shaft  their prosperity could spill away like crude from a busted pipeline. This catastrophic social disintegration is not merely a continuation of Africas past as a colonial victim. The looting now is accelerating as never before. As global demand for Africas resources rises, a handful of Africans are becoming legitimately rich but the vast majority, like the continent as a whole, is being fleeced. Outsiders tend to think of Africa as a great drain of philanthropy. But look more closely at the resource industry and the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world looks rather different. In 2010, fuel and mineral exports from Africa were worth $333 billion, more than seven times the value of the aid that went in the opposite direction. But who received the money? For every Frenchwoman who dies in childbirth, 100 die in Niger alone, the former French colony whose uranium fuels Frances nuclear reactors. In petro-states like Angola three-quarters of government revenue comes from oil. The government is not funded by the people, and as result it is not beholden to them. A score of African countries whose economies depend on resources are rentier states  their people are largely serfs. The resource curse is not merely some unfortunate economic phenomenon, the product of an intangible force. What is happening in Africas resource states is systematic looting. Like its victims, its beneficiaries have names.

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