Africa in the Global Economy

Capital Flight, Enablers, and Decolonial Responses

Gorden Moyo

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English

Springer International Publishing AG
23 March 2024

Public administration; Economic theory & philosophy; Economic growth; International economics; Development economics

Series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development

This book discusses the role played by powerful global institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation, multinational corporations, and the international credit rating agencies in keeping Africa marginalised in the world economy. The book focuses on the intrusive roles of these institutions as enablers and beneficiaries of capital outflows and financial subordination in Africa. Diverging from the official narrative that touts China and the other emerging economies as global reformers that are poised to partner Africa in its fight against financial subjugation, the book instead argues that, like the Western powers, the emerging economies are benefiting prodigiously from a rigged global financial system that keeps Africa as a net creditor to the rest of the world. The book draws its theoretical framework from the repressed heterodox theories including dependency, core-periphery, world systems and Marxist theories as well as the decolonial approach. It concludes with a call for a decolonial African agency that should champion an epistemic rebellion against the neo-liberal and neo-classic economic traditions that have been historically deployed to justify Africa’s subordinated position in the global economic governance.

This book comes at moment in time when Africa is ready to become a Rule Maker not a Rule Taker. The analysis Dr. Moyo presents having been in the front line of public policy and international negotiations demonstrate the need for Africa to re-write the rules to foster our own Transformation.

Jason Rosario Braganza, Executive Director, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)

By: Gorden Moyo
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2024
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783031509995
ISBN 10: 3031509994
Series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
Pages: 181
Publication Date: 23 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gorden Moyo is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. At the same time Dr Moyo is the Head of an independent think tank- the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe. He also serves as a member of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum Technical Group on Public Financial Management on a pro-bono basis. He received his PhD in African Leadership Development from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. Moyo is a Chevening Scholar whose primary research interests are in global finance, international economic relations, Emerging Markets and Developing Economies, public leadership, and military commercialism among others. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. His most recent book is titled Making Politics in Zimbabwe’s Second Republic: The Formative Project by Emmerson Mnangagwa (2023), which he co-edited with Prof Kirk Helliker. Moyo has served in the Government of Zimbabwe as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals; and Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe (2009-2015).