Does sub-Saharan Africa need capitalist philanthropy to reduce poverty and achieve food security?

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Title:	Does sub-Saharan Africa need capitalist philanthropy to reduce poverty and achieve food security?
Author:	Morvaridi, Behrooz
Year:	2016
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:	43
Issue:	147
Pages:	151-159
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	foundations gifts charities capitalism
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2016.1149807
Abstract:	This briefing focuses on new philanthropy or capitalist philanthropy. This new form of philanthropy has emerged on the back of neoliberal economic globalisation, which has invigorated wealth concentration in the hands of a few 'super-rich' individuals and families emanating from both the global south and the global north. Super-rich capitalists who have become globally known for active involvement in philanthropy through charities and their own charitablefoundations are denoted here as capitalist philanthropists. The article discusses this phenomenon in the African context. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]