Tom Burgis
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“turn yourself into a corporation: one of the most powerful fictions in which Westerners chose to believe, endowed with privileges and protections, and yet blissfully easy to create.”
― Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
― Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
“The Congolese are consistently rated as the planet’s poorest people, significantly worse off than other destitute Africans. In the decade from 2000, the Congolese were the only nationality whose gross domestic product per capita, a rough measure of average incomes, was less than a dollar a day.”
― The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
― The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
“But often front companies’ ultimate owners are concealed behind layers of corporate secrecy. One reason why foreign resources companies conduct what is known as ‘due diligence’ before embarking on investments abroad is to seek to establish who really owns their local partners.”
― The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth
― The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth
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