Globalisation and Africa: A Rethink Their Development Strategy - Softcover

Prabhakar, Akhilesh Chandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843390517 ISBN 13: 9783843390514

Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011

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This book deals with the concept of globalisation, its history, instruments and problems for the African continent. While identifying it as one of the recent developments currently changing the physiognomy of global politics, it specifically focuses on its challenges, consequences and implications for Africa particularly, in the realm of equality of membership, requisite inputs into the policy process and, the encapsulating assertiveness of the global village. In the process, it was argued and revealed that, globalisation is the final conquest of capital over the rest of the world and that its "antecedents" and "uneven thesis" are explainable within the one- arm banditry and ethos of capitalism. Furthermore, it was argued that this will continue to be so, irrespective of its aim at the transcendental homogenization of political and socio-economic theory across the globe and its purported benefits to mankind. The central thesis of our study is that the asymmetry of power and interests of the member states of the global village, as well as the lopsidedness in the rules of the game there-in, cannot benefit Africa and her people.

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Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar is an Assistant Professor in Economics in Ethiopia since 2005. He obtained a first class M.A. in Economics,and a Ph.D. from JNU, New Delhi. He is a Member of the UN based Inter-Governmental Think Tank on the Intellectual Networks for the South. He served as a Director of Third World Social Form since 2005.

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• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3843390517
• ISBN 13: 9783843390514
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388
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