the global city: new york, london, tokyo pdf

The world may well be radically changing, but African integration remains as topical as ever, concludes the Report, which also highlighted how much integration could stimulate sustained, inclusive growth.

Critically examining the developments that have marked these last 50 years in terms of economic and political integration, the publication underscores how much it needs to be stepped up. Indeed, this report puts regional integration under the spotlight as being necessary for Africa's development, recalling that this is an aspiration dating back to the independence period in the 1960s.

In her opening address, AfDB Secretary General and Vice-President Cecilia Akintomide emphasized how 'Africa's regional integration is a major pillar in the Ten-Year Strategy of the Bank, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2014 as Africa's premier development finance institution.' Presenting the report, AfDB’s Acting Chief Economist and Vice-President Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa highlighted the themes developed in it: regional integration and inclusive growth, regional institutions, regional infrastructure, regional migration, regional financial integration and value chains. The 2014 edition of the African Development Bank's African Development Report, on the theme of 'Regional integration at the service of inclusive growth', was officially launched Tuesday, December 16 at the Bank's headquarters in Abidjan. The BRICS were now very much part of a world turned upside down, and in many respects driving the process. In our view, the centripetal forces supposedly pulling the world more tightly together through globalization had by 2018 reached their limits, and centrifugal pressures had begun to emerge. Third, BRICS-based corporations, along with their states acting in a subimperial manner, are vital forces in super-exploitative accumulation within their respective regions and beyond. Second, the neoliberal character of multilateral institutions, especially in the spheres of finance, trade, and climate politics, is also amplified as the BRICS gain a seat at the table. First, global capitalist crisis tendencies are amplified by centrifugal forces emanating from BRICS economies. This essay considers the opposite, namely that a resurgent imperialism is being facilitated by BRICS politics. Through all this political turmoil, grand claims have been offered about the way BRICS will rebalance the world and ensure good global governance.

The global city: new york, london, tokyo pdf