Unfair Trade e-Waste in Africa

E-waste Challenges in Developing Countries: South Africa Case Study

1. South Africa: Summary of faultlines and action points

The dispossession of African wealth at the cost of Africa's health.

This article synthesizes new data about the outflow of Africa's wealth, to reveal structural factors behind the continent's ongoing underdevelopment. The flow of wealth out of sub-Saharan Africa to the North occurs primarily through exploitative debt and finance, phantom aid, capital flight, unfair trade, and distorted investment. Although the resource drain from Africa dates back many centurie...

National Waste Management Strategy Implementation South Africa Waste Information System Alternative Weighing and Verification Methods for Landfill and Health Care Facilities

China–Africa Trade Patterns: causes and consequences

China’s trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new antiChinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China’s trade policies served its leaders’ political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China’s larger domestic development strategy. China’s state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions tha...

US and China Aid to Africa: Impact on the Donor-Recipient Trade Relations

This paper investigates the impact of the US and China’s foreign aids to Africa on trade flows between donor and recipient countries. Evidence from the gravity model estimates reveals that the two donors’ exports are strengthened by their aids to African partners. Interestingly, China’s aid shows a positive effect on its total volume of trade and imports from Africa, while the aid from the US e...