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Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism: Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt

Alastair Fraser

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This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia’s experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia’s mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation. It considers the opportunities and dangers presented by Chinese investment, how both companies and the Zambian state responded to dramatic instabilities in global commodity markets since 2004, and how frustration with the courting of mining multinationals has led to the rise of populist opposition. This detailed study of a key industry in a poor Central African state tells us a great deal about the unstable nature and uneven impacts of the whole global economic system.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: December 15, 2010

ISBN: 0230104983

ISBN 13: 9780230104983

Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism: Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt

Alastair Fraser

4/5 ( ratings)

This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia’s experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia’s mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation. It considers the opportunities and dangers presented by Chinese investment, how both companies and the Zambian state responded to dramatic instabilities in global commodity markets since 2004, and how frustration with the courting of mining multinationals has led to the rise of populist opposition. This detailed study of a key industry in a poor Central African state tells us a great deal about the unstable nature and uneven impacts of the whole global economic system.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: December 15, 2010

ISBN: 0230104983

ISBN 13: 9780230104983

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