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Author : Tom Burgis

Pages : 324 pages

Publisher : William Collins

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0007523106

ISBN-13 : 9780007523108

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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, Africa?s resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. 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. 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 Africa?s new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they ….

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