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Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies

Autor Ben Radley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2023

Problema centrală pe care o abordează Disrupted Development in the Congo este eșecul sistematic al modelului de dezvoltare bazat pe investiții străine directe în sectorul extractiv african. Remarcăm modul în care autorul Ben Radley demontează 'Consensul Minier African', acea doctrină care susține că doar corporațiile transnaționale pot aduce progres, în timp ce formele locale de minerit sunt etichetate drept ineficiente sau legate de conflicte. Prin date riguroase, volumul demonstrează că, în realitate, marile corporații din Republica Democrată Congo au fost adesea vectori de corupție, management defectuos și instabilitate, blocând dezvoltarea structurală pe care promiteau să o accelereze.

Subliniem perspectiva critică asupra structurilor de proprietate; Ben Radley argumentează că obstacolele în calea transformării economice apar indiferent de cine administrează minele, dacă logica rămâne una extractivă și orientată spre exterior. Cititorul care a aplicat ideile din African Artisanal Mining from the Inside Out de Sara Geenen va găsi aici argumentele teoretice și politice care completează analiza socio-economică a mineritului local. Dacă volumul lui Geenen se concentra pe viața minerilor, Radley mută discuția spre nivelul macro-politic, cerând o reevaluare a politicilor OUP OXFORD.

În final, reținem soluția propusă: în loc să marginalizeze mineritul artizanal, guvernele ar trebui să sprijine mecanizarea acestuia pentru a asigura absorbția forței de muncă și păstrarea profitului în economiile locale. Este o lucrare esențială pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor de subdezvoltare în secolul XXI.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192849052
ISBN-10: 0192849050
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă specialiștilor în economie politică și studii de dezvoltare care doresc să înțeleagă de ce bogăția minerală nu se traduce în prosperitate pentru populația din Congo. Cititorul va câștiga o viziune critică, bazată pe dovezi, asupra limitelor capitalismului corporativ în Africa și va descoperi argumente solide pentru un model de dezvoltare economică centrat pe resurse și capacități locale.


Despre autor

Ben Radley este un cercetător specializat în economia politică a dezvoltării, cu un interes marcat asupra regiunii Marilor Lacuri din Africa. Activitatea sa academică se concentrează pe impactul industrializării extractive și pe dinamica muncii în țările cu venituri mici. Prin această lucrare publicată de OUP OXFORD, Radley se impune ca o voce critică în dezbaterea despre viitorul mineritului african, aducând o expertiză valoroasă acumulată prin cercetări de teren extinse în Republica Democrată Congo.


Descriere

Since the turn of the century, low-income African countries have undergone a process of mining industrialization led by transnational corporations. The process has been sustained by an African Mining Consensus uniting international financial institutions, African governments, development agencies, and various strands of the academic literature. The Consensus position is that mining industrialization can drive transformative processes of social and economic development in low-income African settings. For this, state-owned enterprises and local forms of labour-intensive mining are deemed unsuitable. The former is characterized as corrupt and mismanaged, and the latter as an inefficient, subsistence activity with links to conflict financing. The Consensus holds, instead, that mining industrialization should be led by the superior expertise and efficiency of transnational corporations.Disrupted Development in the Congo reveals the fragile foundations on which this Consensus rests. Through an in-depth case study of mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ben Radley details how foreign corporations have been prone to mismanagement, inefficiencies, and rent-seeking, and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence. He also documents how structural impediments to the transformative effects of mining industrialization in low-income African countries occur irrespective of ownership and management structures. Based on the findings presented, Radley urges a move away from the market-led logics underpinning the Consensus. In the mining sector itself, he argues that efforts to mechanize labour-intensive forms of local mining better meet the needs of low-income African economies for rising productivity, labour absorption, and the domestic retention of the value generated by productive activity than the currently dominant but disruptive foreign corporate-led model.Part of this title is published open access. This part is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. It is available to read and download as a PDF on the Oxford Academic platform.

Recenzii

This book is a major contribution to scholarship on economic development in low-income countries by its brilliant analysis of theories of development from Raul Prebisch and the CEPAL structuralists in Latin America to Samir Amin and his followers in Africa. It ought to be read by all those interested in economic development in mineral-rich countries in Africa and in other countries of the South.
The analysis in this book should inspire policy makers in African countries who hope to chart a new course towards resource-based industrialization that is transformative, inclusive, and sustainable.
In this hard-headed and systematic critique, Radley reveals how domestic forces in and around mining create more favourable opportunities for developing national sovereign projects in Africa. A must read for anyone looking for radical policy alternatives.
Disrupted Development in the Congo is a meticulous, essential and dystopian study tracing how one such foreign-led enterprise - now defunct Banro Corp. - established an ambitious project to industrially source gold from two major mining areas in eastern DRC (Twangiza in South Kivu province and Namoya in Maniema province).
This book is an essential resource for policymakers, development economists, scholars, and students interested in the dynamics of mining-based economies and their broader socio-economic implications. It also serves as an invaluable reference for NGOs and international bodies involved in formulating and implementing development policies in Africa. The insights provided are crucial for anyone committed to fostering sustainable development in resource-rich, low-income countries, making it a cornerstone text for understanding and improving economic development frameworks in similar contexts.
Disrupted Development in the Congo is a harrowing tale of how positivist theory and corporate practice go hand in hand not only in devastating indigenous development in the periphery, but also in creating - as Polanyi (1944) remarked and the case of Banro corroborates - an ultimately self-destructive machine.

Notă biografică

Ben Radley is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. He earned a PhD (cum laude) in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. His research centres on processes of economic transformation in Central Africa, with a focus on labour dynamics and the role played by Northern corporations. He is an affiliated member of Centre d'Expertise en Gestion Minière at the Catholic University of Bukavu, and sits on the editorial board of Review of African Political Economy.