Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa: Decolonial Perspectives on Political Economy and Corruption

ISBN-13: 9781032053639 / Angielski

Serges Djoyou Kamga

Opis

This book examines the detrimental impact of illicit financial flows on South Africa’s development, political economy, and transformation in the 21st century.

Over the years, illicit financial flows have led to the systematic looting and channelling away of South African resources, yet they are rarely studied by researchers looking to explain the country’s underdevelopment and political economy. This book looks across sectors, showing that illicit financial flows cut across all the key pillars of development, frustrating the betterment of peoples’ lives in South Africa. Investigating the problem from a decolonial perspective, the book delves deep into the catastrophic impacts of illicit financial flows for people and the economy, discusses how the problem is being combatted, and ultimately suggests solutions for rebuilding social trust between people and the state.

Making an important contribution to the decolonial debate, as well as to discussions of South Africa’s political economy, this book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, global development, political science, law and corruption studies.

Spis treści

Part 1: Illicit Financial Flows and Political Economy of South Africa  1. Insights into Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa  2. Nexus Between Illicit Financial Flows, Governance and Development in the Republic of South Africa  3. Social and Economic Effects of Illicit Financial Flows in South Africa  4. Illicit Trading in the Mining Sector  5. Under the Radar Illicit Outflows from South Africa  6. Illicit Financial Flows and the Marginalised Population  7. The Political Economy of Tobacco Illicit Trade in South Africa  8. The Civil Society and the Fight Against Illicit Financial Flows in Africa  9. An Institutional and Public Policy Response to Illicit Financial Flows in the Mining Industry of Southern Africa  10. Regional Economic Communities and the Fight Against Corruption in Africa  Part 2: Illicit Financial Flows in South Africa: A Reading from an Afro-Decolonial
Perspective  11. Illicit Financial Flows in South Africa  12. Illicit Financial Flows in (South) Africa and the Problem of Meaning 13. Nailing the Devil on The Cross  14. The Nexus Between Illicit Financial Flows and the Recent Downgrade of South Africa’s Ratings by Credit Ratings Agencies  15. Reactive Versus Constructive Agency in Combating Illicit Financial Flows from a South African Perspective  16. The Ethics of Power, Illicit Financial Flows and the Right to Development  17. Illicit Financial Flows, State Capture and the Right to Development in South Africa

 

O autorze

Serges Djoyou Kamga is a Professor of Law at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa.