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Integrated Yet Marginalized: Implications of Globalization for African Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2015

Léonce Ndikumana
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Abstract:

This article discusses Africa’s deepening marginalization in the globalization of production, finance, and labor. It underscores critical development issues that result from, and are exacerbated by, globalization in the context of unequal global distribution of economic and political power: illicit financial flows and tax evasion, the brain drain, an increasing incidence of noncommunicable diseases, and the disproportionate burden of environmental degradation that is shouldered by the African continent. It also offers some policy suggestions to address these issues at national and regional levels.

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Cet article traite de la marginalisation croissante de l'Afrique face à la mondialisation de la production, des finances et du monde du travail. Il met en évidence des questions critiques de développement qui non seulement résultent de la mondialisation mais sont aussi exacerbés par elle notamment dans le contexte de répartition mondiale inégale du pouvoir économique et politique: les flux financiers illicites et l’évasion fiscale, la fuite des cerveaux, une incidence croissante des maladies non transmissibles et la charge disproportionnée de la dégradation de l'environnement qui est assumée par le continent africain. Il propose également quelques suggestions de programmes politiques pour traiter ces questions aux niveaux national et régional.

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Africaglobalizationeconomic integrationtradecapital flightillicit financial flowsepidemiological transition
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African Studies Review , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , September 2015 , pp. 7 - 28
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2015 

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