Licensed larceny : infrastructure, financial extraction and the global south /

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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 pus...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hildyard, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Manchester capitalism
Subjects:
Wealth > Social aspects.
Elite (Social sciences)
Richesse > Aspect social.
Élite (Sciences sociales)
Online Access:Texto completo
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
  • References.

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