The Importance of Africa to The World System After 9/11 Attacks: War on Terrorism or Integration for Sustainable Development



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7.Appendix:

7.a Tables:

Table 1.1 select sales of multinational corporations 2004 (in US$)

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Wal-Mart Stores $288 billion

Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) 269 billion

General Motors (US) 194 billion

Daimler Chrysler(Germany/US) 177 billion

Toyota(Japan) 173 billion

General Electric (US) 153 billion

Total (France) 153 billion

IBM 96 billion

Siemens(Germany) 92 billion

Nestle(Switzerland) 70 billion

Sonny (Japan) 67 billion

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Source; ‘’The Fortune Global 500’’, Fortune in Nye J S Jr 2007,p. 8

These selection of large Multinational corporations is to depict two things; firstly that these multinational corporations have annual sales that are larger than the GDP of more than Half of the states in the world and all the states in sub Saharan Africa richer and secondly that though they are non state actors and lack some types of power such as military, their role and influence in making wars and bringing about political change within states cannot be undermind.




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