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  • The Fair Trade Scandal

    Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich

    by Ndongo Sylla ...
    This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Revolutionary Movements in Africa

    An Untold Story

    Edited by Pascal Bianchini, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Leo Zeilig ...
    Series series Black Critique
    ‘A remarkable volume on the vicissitudes of the revolutionary left in post-independence Africa’ Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dar es Salaam‘Twenty-first-century radicals should find new inspiration for action in this untold history’ Jean Copans, anthropologist and sociologist‘From the Tubu nomads of northern Chad to peasants, workers and students throughout the African ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa

    Edited by Maha Ben Gadha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, Ndongo Samba Sylla ...
    Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African countries from achieving any meaningful monetary sovereignty.Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa traces the recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies, looking at the ways African nations are resisting colonial legacies. Using a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French Neocolonialism in Africa

    A History of Electoral Imperialism

    by Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla ...
    Translated by David Broder ...
    ‘This book will change everything you thought you knew about democracy. Brilliant and necessary — don’t miss it!’ Jason Hickel, author of Less is More‘The most important treatise on colonial and neocolonial history of the past few decades’ Peter James Hudson, author of Bankers and Empire‘A necessary and valuable read for anyone who wants to (re)think the thirst for change in Francophone Africa’ ... Read more

    $27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fair Trade Scandal

    Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich

    by Ndongo Samba Sylla ...
    The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider knowledge, Ndongo Sylla shows that there is a big gap between the rhetoric of Fair Trade and its practical results.Sylla shows empirically that Fair Trade excludes those who need it the most and that its benefits are essentially captured by ... Read more

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  • Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt

    Edited by Ndongo Samba Sylla ...
    Series Book 38 - Research in Political Economy
    The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South's debt back into the spotlight. With declining export earnings and tax revenues, many countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia have found themselves objectively unable to service their foreign currency debt. This situation, reminiscent of the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, is the backdrop of the 38th ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

  • The Myth of Economic Development

    by Celso Furtado ...
    Translated by Jordan B. Jones ...
    Series series Critical South
    This classic work remains one of the most incisive contributions to dependency theory in the Latin American context. While agreeing with other dependency theorists that underdevelopment on the Latin America periphery was structurally connected to the accumulation of capital in the advanced economies at the core of the global capitalist system, Furtado went further and argued that the very idea of ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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  • Contemporary France

    An Introduction to French Politics and Society

    by David Howarth, Georgios Varouxakis ...
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  • The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism

    Edited by Jean-François Tremblay ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design as relates to fiscal powers and the division of those powers between levels of government. Specifically, the analyses consider powers of taxation, spending, regulation, and more. Focusing on Australia, Brazil ... Read more

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  • Macro Federalism And Local Finance

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  • Juggernaut

    How Emerging Powers Are Reshaping Globalization

    by Uri Dadush, William Shaw ...
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