Africa

Africa

Walden Bello: Structural Adjustment Programmes dictated by the IMF and World Bank destroyed African agriculture

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Subtitle: 
Bello on Structural Adjustment Programmes
Authors
Author(s): 
TNI
External author(s): 
Ama Biney
This was originally published at: 
Allafrica

How is it possible that in the 21st century the world has the capacity to feed every single human being on the planet, yet the majority of people in Africa and the rest of the Global South go rampantly hungry?

Dot Keet

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Dot Keet is a South African academic and activist involved in many national, African and international networks resisting corporate "free trade" agreements.  She is an active member of the national South African Trade Strategy Group (TSG) and the Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network (SAPSN), the key coordinator of the Southern African Social Forum (SASF); as well as the continent-wide Africa Trade Network (ATN); and the international Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network.

Role
Type of author: 
Associate Fellow
Role/Title: 

Research Associate, Alternative Information & Development Center

Related to Project: 
Alternative Regionalisms
Related to Project: 
Trade & Investment
Expertise
Areas of expertise: 
Southern African Political Economy; Alternative Regionalisms; Africa, the WTO & International Trade; Africa/EU Relations & Debt
Languages spoken: 

English

Selected publications: 
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
South-South Strategic Alternatives to the Global Economic System and Power Regime
Contact
Contact details: 
dkeet [at] iafrica.com
Location: 

Location

South Africa

Southern Africa: whither regional integration?

As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based development?

Deadly mix in African elites

Unless African ruling elites overcome their obsession that regular elections where the winner takes all is the main measure of democracy, the orgy of violence such as that over disputed elections in Kenya will be repeated elsewhere on the continent.

Western donors, with their requirements that elections are enough to warrant aid, have helped along this limited view of democracy. Zimbabwe is staging its long-awaited presidential election this weekend, with Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF so blatantly rigging the elections that the outcome risks similar violence.

Towards peoples alternatives in Africa and Europe (Francais)

Declaration, Lisbonne 9 décembre 2007
Nous, militants de la société civile engagés dans de nombreux mouvements de base et organisations citoyennes en Afrique et en Europe, nous sommes rencontrés à Lisbonne du 7 au 9 décembre 2007 pour exprimer notre opposition et notre résistance aux politiques néolibérales.

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)

Responses to the EU Offensive against ACP Developmental Regions

This paper highlights the negative effects of liberalisation of trade and investment within weaker economies and, in particular, how EU trade agreements undermine existing efforts towards developmental integration in ACP regions.

China as 'partner' or neo-colonial operator in Africa ?

Paper presented at the seminar China's New Role in Africa and the South:A search for a new perspective, parallel to the meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Shanghai, May 2007.Paper presented at the seminar China's New Role in Africa and the South:A search for a new perspective, parallel to the meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Shanghai, May 2007.

Annual Basker Vashee Memorial Lecture: Africa's Democracy Deficit

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Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15 June 2007

Lecture at:De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam

> See Press Release and Background on lecture

Across the African continent, constituting democracy has proved elusive for many countries despite the widespread acceptance of democracy worldwide as an alternative to dictatorship and totalitarian regimes.

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