Plunder in the postcolonial political economy

Decades after the formal end of colonialism in most countries, massive transfers of wealth from the global South to the global North are still taking place in the global economy. This panel will focus on the most prominent types of these transfers: debt service, profit repatriation and unequal exchange. Three eminent experts on the topic will present the extent of these transfers, their underlying mechanisms, and political strategies of how to overcome them.

Invited speakers:

– Mariana Morena Hanbury Lemos, economist and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

– Malina Stutz, economist, consultant and researcher at the Jubilee/Erlassjahr campaign

– Christof Parnreiter,  Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Hamburg and head of a research project on the repatriation of profits“

The speakers will each deliver a keynote of 30 min. After that, we open the discussion.