Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa (eBook)

Maha Ben Gadha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, Ndongo Samba Sylla (Herausgeber)

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2021
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4409-6 (ISBN)

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The story of how African societies are resisting financial dependency and colonial legacies

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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 comparative, multi-disciplinary approach, this book uncovers what went wrong after the Pan-African approaches that defined the early stages of independence, and how most African economies fell into the firm grip of the IMF, World Bank, and the EU’s strict neoliberal policies.

This collection is the first to offer a wide-ranging, comparative and historical look at how African societies have attempted to increase their policy influence and move beyond neoliberal orthodoxy and US-dollar dependency. Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa is essential reading for anyone interested in the African quest for self-determination in a turbulent world of recurring economic and financial crisis.

Inhalt

Foreword - Prabhat Patnaik

Introduction - By the editors

Part I: The contemporary global economic and monetary order

1. China’s Finance and Africa’s Economic and Monetary Sovereignty - Radhika Desai

Part II: Challenges to monetary sovereignty in the postcolonial periphery

2. Banking, Business, and Sovereignty in Sudan (1956–2019) - Harry Cross

3. Money, Finance, and Capital Accumulation in Zimbabwe - Francis Garikayi

4. Monetary Policy in Algeria (1999–2019): An economic and monetary history approach - Fatiha Talahite

Part III: Increasing sovereignty through monetary unions?

5. The West African CFA Franc Zone as a Double Monetary Union: Loss of economic competitiveness and anti-developmental path-dependencies - Carla Coburger

6. The CFA Franc Under Neoliberal Monetary Policy: A labour-focused approach - Hannah Cross

7. From Central Bank Independence to Government Dependence: Monetary colonialism in the Eurozone - Thomas Fazi

8. Geopolitics of Finance in Africa: Birth of financial centres, not monetary unions - Elizabeth Cobbett

Part IV: Alternatives

9. The Great Paradox: Liberalism Destroys the Market Economy: The pitfalls of the neoliberal recipe forAfrican economic and monetary sovereignty - Heiner Flassbeck

10. Food Sovereignty, the National Question, and Post-colonial Development in Africa - Max Ajl

11. Being Poor in the Current Monetary System: Implications of foreign exchange shortage for African economies and possible solutions - Anne Löscher

12. The German Push for Local Currency Bond Markets in African Countries: A pathway to economic sovereignty or increased economic dependency? - Frauke Banse

Notes on Editors

Notes on Contributors

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2021
• Vorwort: Prabhat Patnaik
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Africa • African Economies • currency systems • Development Studies • financial colonialism • International Relations • Macroeconomics • Monetary Sovereignty • Monetary systems • Monetary Theory
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4409-7 / 0745344097
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4409-6 / 9780745344096