Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Economic and monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
The story of how African societies are resisting financial dependency and colonial legacies.
Details
- Creator
- Edited by Maha Ben Gadha [and five others] ; foreword by Prabhat Patnaik
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- First edition
- London, UK : Pluto Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (x, 318 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780745344096, 0745344097, 9780745344119, 0745344119, 0745344070
- Cover -- Contents -- Foreword - Prabhat Patnaik -- Introduction - by the editors -- Part I: The contemporary global economic and monetary order -- 1. China's Finance and Africa's Economic and Monetary Sovereignty - Radhika Desai -- Part II: Challenges to monetary sovereignty in the postcolonial periphery -- 2. Banking, Business, and Sovereignty in Sudan (1956-2019) - Harry Cross -- 3. Money, Finance, and Capital Accumulation in Zimbabwe - Francis Garikayi -- 4. Monetary Policy in Algeria (1999-2019): An economic and monetary history approach - Fatiha Talahite -- Part III: Increasing sovereignty through monetary unions? -- 5. The West African CFA Franc Zone as a Double Monetary Union: Loss of economic competitiveness and anti-developmental path-dependencies - Carla Coburger -- 6. The CFA Franc Under Neoliberal Monetary Policy: A labour-focused approach - Hannah Cross -- 7. From Central Bank Independence to Government Dependence: Monetary colonialism in the Eurozone -Thomas Fazi -- 8. Geopolitics of Finance in Africa: Birth of financial centres, not monetary unions - Elizabeth Cobbett -- Part IV: Alternatives -- 9. The Great Paradox: Liberalism Destroys the Market Economy: The pitfalls of the neoliberal recipe for African economic and monetary sovereignty - Heiner Flassbeck -- 10. Food Sovereignty, the National Question, and Post-colonial Development in Africa - Max Ajl -- 11. Being Poor in the Current Monetary System: Implications of foreign exchange shortage for African economies and possible solutions - Anne Loscher -- 12. The German Push for Local Currency Bond Markets in African Countries: A pathway to economic sovereignty or increased economic dependency? - Frauke Banse -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index