Africa's Future and the World Bank's support to it
This is a strategy guide for the ‘development’ of Africa made by the World Bank released in March. This guide highlights the oppurtunites for growth and export prospects while ignoring the underlying structural issues. These being the corrupt power relations, economic vulnerability, worsening resource curses, land grabs and threats of environmental chaos and disease. These have resulted in part from neoliberal economic policies such as privatisation and deregulation and the World Bank continues to pursue these policies which have proven to fail. These practices continue because in the discourse of economic growth this is seen as the most viable solution.
