Zambia Mining And Neoliberalism

Author : A. Fraser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230115594
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism written by A. Fraser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation. It considers the opportunities and dangers presented by Chinese investment, how both companies and the Zambian state responded to dramatic instabilities in global commodity markets since 2004, and how frustration with the courting of mining multinationals has led to the rise of populist opposition. This detailed study of a key industry in a poor Central African state tells us a great deal about the unstable nature and uneven impacts of the whole global economic system.

Author : Alastair Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Whom the Windfalls? written by Alastair Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Rubbers
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 : 9781847012869
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Mining Capitalism written by Benjamin Rubbers and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent.

Author : Mwape Mungu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relationship Between Mining and Local Community Development written by Mwape Mungu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates how mineral resource exploitation intersects with development in Zambia. The main objective is to understand mining contributions to local community development and how these vary according to gender. The study draws empirical insights from Munali nickel mine in the Mazabuka district of Southern Zambia. Findings suggest that the relationship between mineral resource exploitation and development in Zambia has been restructured mainly due to neoliberal political-economic policies of the 1990s. One key outcome is that mining-led development in rural communities was seriously undermined. The research finds that mining-led development benefits men more than women due to the gender relations in the mining sector. Mining is traditionally considered a macho activity, which puts men at an advantage. The dissertation carries the argument that the implementation of IMF and World Bank-sponsored neoliberal political-economic policies compromised mining-led development in Zambia. A focus on neoliberal policies and ensuing privatisation made the country lose the development contributions which mines were making, especially in local mining communities. The subsequent introduction of development agreements did little to improve the situation. In fact, they worsened policy directions, with the country oscillating between tight mining regimes to relaxed ones. One outcome has been uncertainty in minesaÌ22́Ơ4́Ø role in the development process, leading to limited benefits to ZambiaaÌ22́Ơ4́Øs mining communities. Overall, countries such as Zambia, where there is high dependency on mineral resource exploitation for economic growth, prioritising optimal taxation benefits tends to undermine mineral resource-led development, particularly in mining communities.

Author : Mukuka Chipanta
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 177922298X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Casualty of Power written by Mukuka Chipanta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He boarded the inter-city bus and set off on the six-hour journey to Lusaka - Christopher Columbus en route to discover a new world. Hamoonga Moyas journey would take him a long way from the township of his youth on the Zambian Copperbelt. Life in the capital brought him new friends, and new ideas, and his journalism studies introduced him to ethical dilemmas. Should we take sides when looking at the social impact of the Chinese-owned mines? Who should we blame for the impoverishment of our citizens - the new owners, or the government that made the sale? Is a stadium worth more than a hospital? Outside the classroom, Hamoongas life, and his hope for the future, were soon entangled in a web of greed, international crime, and betrayal. Only in the end will he know who his true friends are.

Author : Brent Z. Kaup
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139627597
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market Justice written by Brent Z. Kaup and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market Justice explores the challenges for the new global left as it seeks to construct alternative means of societal organization. Focusing on Bolivia, Brent Z. Kaup examines a testing ground of neoliberal and counter-neoliberal policies and an exemplar of bottom-up globalization. Kaup argues that radical shifts towards and away from free market economic trajectories are not merely shaped by battles between transnational actors and local populations, but also by conflicts between competing domestic elites and the ability of the oppressed to overcome traditional class divides. Further, the author asserts that struggles against free markets are not evidence of opposition to globalization or transnational corporations. They should instead be understood as struggles over the forms of global integration and who benefits from them.

Author : Lise Rakner
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171065063
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001 written by Lise Rakner and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title analyses the implementation of political and economic liberalisation in Zambia during the first two electin periods (1991 - 2001).

Author : Martin Arboleda
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732960
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Mine written by Martin Arboleda and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.

Author : Francis Kaunda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling the Family Silver written by Francis Kaunda and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Bond
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137281
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looting Africa written by Patrick Bond and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment and the continent's brain/skills drain. Moreover, capitalism in most African countries has witnessed the emergence of excessively powerful ruling elites with incomes derived from financial-parasitical accumulation. Without overstressing the 'mistakes' of such elites, this book contextualises Africa's wealth outflow within a stagnant but volatile world economy.