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Title Africa and the new globalization / [edited by] George Klay Kieh, Jr
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 192 pages)
Contents Introduction : from the old to the new globalization / George Klay Kieh Jr. -- The new globalization : scope, nature and dimensions / George Klay Kieh Jr. -- The African debt crisis and the new globalization / John Mukum Mbaku -- Human rights and the new globalization in Africa / E. Ike Udogu -- The norms of displacement : NGOs, globalization and the state in Africa / P.I. Idahosa -- State sovereignty and the new globalization in Africa / Jacques Mangala -- The environment and the new globalization in Africa / John Mukum Mbaku -- The new globalization and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Amy S. Patterson -- Weaving together the threads of the new globalization : the lessons / George Klay Kieh Jr
Summary This book focuses on the 'new globalization', the most expansive and technologically advanced of all the phases of globalization. It identifies and discusses many of the frontier issues in Africa that are being impacted by the dynamics of this new globalization - debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Africa
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Africa
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
Economic history
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Globalization -- Social aspects
Social conditions
Globalisierung
SUBJECT Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Africa
Afrika
Form Electronic book
Author Kieh, George Klay, 1956-
ISBN 9780754685227
0754685225
1281241083
9781281241085