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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102467
	Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015
	Hickel J.; Dorninger C.; Wieland H.; Suwandi I.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	73
英文摘要	Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of resources and labour from the global South, extracted through price differentials in international trade. Past attempts to estimate the scale and value of this drain have faced a number of conceptual and empirical limitations, and have been unable to capture the upstream resources and labour embodied in traded goods. Here we use environmental input-output data and footprint analysis to quantify the physical scale of net appropriation from the South in terms of embodied resources and labour over the period 1990 to 2015. We then represent the value of appropriated resources in terms of prevailing market prices. Our results show that in 2015 the North net appropriated from the South 12 billion tons of embodied raw material equivalents, 822 million hectares of embodied land, 21 exajoules of embodied energy, and 188 million person-years of embodied labour, worth $10.8 trillion in Northern prices – enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. Over the whole period, drain from the South totalled $242 trillion (constant 2010 USD). This drain represents a significant windfall for the global North, equivalent to a quarter of Northern GDP. For comparison, we also report drain in global average prices. Using this method, we find that the South's losses due to unequal exchange outstrip their total aid receipts over the period by a factor of 30. Our analysis confirms that unequal exchange is a significant driver of global inequality, uneven development, and ecological breakdown. © 2022 The Author(s)
英文关键词	Embodied resource flows; Inequality; Input-output analysis; International development; Trade in value added; Unequal exchange
语种	英语
scopus关键词	conceptual framework; economic growth; empirical analysis; estimation method; exchange rate; Gross Domestic Product; input-output analysis; international trade; market system; poverty
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256659
作者单位	Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain; International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics, United Kingdom; Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Klosterneuburg, Austria; Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria; Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hickel J.,Dorninger C.,Wieland H.,等. Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015[J],2022,73.
APA	Hickel J.,Dorninger C.,Wieland H.,&Suwandi I..(2022).Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015.Global Environmental Change,73.
MLA	Hickel J.,et al."Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015".Global Environmental Change 73(2022).