Bibliograph

Licensed larceny, infrastructure, financial extraction and the Global South, Nicholas Hildyard

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Licensed larceny, infrastructure, financial extraction and the Global South, Nicholas Hildyard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-124)

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mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Licensed larceny

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

942707176

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Hildyard

Series statement

The Manchester capitalism book series

Sub title

infrastructure, financial extraction and the Global South

Summary

"Inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the 1%, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies that benefit the already wealthy. In other words, it is less about financing development than developing finance.Understanding and exposing these processes is essential if inequality is to be challenged. But equally important is the need for critical reflection on how the wealthy are getting away with it. What does the wealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organising by those who would resist elite power?"--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

1 Mise-en-scène: the injustices of wealth ;2 A study in financial extraction: Lesotho's national referral hospital;3 Infrastructure as financial extraction ;4 Extraction in motion -- infrastructure-as-asset-class ;5 Infrastructure corridors, frontier finance and the vulnerabilities ;6 Reflections for activism

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