This book's main thesis is that China has established control on the majority of the world's limited physical resources and that the rest of us will have to ultimately deal with the repercussions. The author demonstrates an amazing facility for pulling data from various sources to support her conclusions, and does it in a relatively simple manner for the popular audience to understand.
It took me a long time to finish reading this 225 page book because it is so depressing. For me some of the fin More...

I saw the author interviewed on Bill Maher and decided to pick up the book before my next trip to China.

I'm glad I did. It helped to put snippets of news stories about China and expansionist plans in developing countries into real context. China has a plan - it's a long-range, comprehensive, global reaching quest for raw materials that will fuel the engine of their economy for decades to come. Theirs is not a mission to improve the global standard of living, but if a country needs a new port to More...

Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo

"Winner Take All" is an even-handed assessment on China's race for resources and the implications this has for the rest of the world. The book's spotlight is on China's central role in the commodities dynamics. Best-selling author, international economist and a native of Zambia, Dr. Moyo has written a professional yet accessible book that tackles the following broad themes: economic implications of China's More...

Another book which should be read by our presidential candidates. As one who has had some undergrad and graduate work in agricultural economics, I readily appreciate her practical concern re: commodities, ad real-life look at economics, which, as Dr. Moyo succinctly informed a questioner during her presentation on BookTV, the class room is one look, but reality is what you need; too often, as I quickly realized while taking some graduate courses, there is often no relationship between what is re More...

This is probably the first economics book I've read, but it goes far beyond simple economics. I saw Dambisa Moyo on The Daily Show and I remember thinking she was maybe a bit pro China. While in South Africa a couple of people I met mentioned the Chinese influence and they didn't speak highly of it however after reading this book I see it in greater perspective. China is helping build infrastructure in many parts of Africa, including hospitals, schools and roads. There will always be reservation More...

This book shows you the fact the world will face a looming financial crisis in regard to "commodity." Now, China has strong power in it's resource strategy, especially in Africa. Dambisa Moyo used to be a worker of Goldman Sachs, then she can explain from fer experience what's going on within the commodities market, and forecast the future,or scenario in accordance with the recent trend. China's investment to resources in developing countries isn't limited around the mines. China is constructing More...

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We have all heard strange stories about China’s presence in Africa. From
The major question here I think is: What is China exactly doing in Africa? What does it mean for us Africans? And for the world? Luckily, my favourite economist decides to write a book and answers these very important questions.
The Truth of the matter is that the reasons for China’s presence in Africa are far from obvious. There are a lot of contradictory re More...

Good book! Personally, I have loathed the European centrism towards Africa and the seemingly unbreakable aid-cycle and victimization. Very rarely do I read a book that shares this view, and DM's WTA is one of the few. She shows that China approaches African countries as trading partners, providing cash and infrastructure projects in exchange for their commodities. Not as helpless victims that need pity. I'm so happy to see Africans like DM have also opened their eyes.
However, this was not DM's m More...

I enjoyed Winner Take All as an economics primer where the commodities markets are concerned; there was much attention given to such things as speculation in the commodities markets, when and how governments should intervene and what such intervention does to commodity prices.

China almost seemed to be a secondary focus after the basic explanations of commodity markets, although such explanations to a layman such as myself were invaluable to understanding the overall thesis of the book.

Where I f More...

Winner Take All, China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the Rest of the World
Dambisa Moyo, Harper Collins, 2002

This book is about supply and demand. Commodities, specifically arable land, water, energy and minerals are in demand as the global population grows and gets wealthier. More people living in cities and with middle class expectations means increased demand for goods and services – everywhere. One of these commodities, the global supply of arable land, is not entirely available More...

One-Minute Review
Big bad China? In Winner Take All, Dambisa Moyo, who burst onto the literary-political scene with Dead Aid, suggests that China’s growing influence isn’t all bad. While recent books like Mark Steyn’s After America and Niall Ferguson’s Civilization exhibit concern about the West's declining economic and political clout, Moyo’s new book describes more nuanced global changes. China’s increasing consumption of and control over the world’s finite resources do drive up commodity costs More...

This sounded like an extremely interesting book given my love of current events/politics/history. Found it extremely dry and boring. The author overwhelms you with so many statistics that unless you have a background in finance or economics you end up not really getting what she is trying to point out. Found myself reading pages over and over trying to make sense of it.

Fascinating read about the race for a scarce set of commodities and how impacting this will be sooner than we realize. Somber reflection on how ill prepared our country is compared to China. Whether you agree or not, China is preparing for their future while we continue to race to the edge of a potential cliff at full speed.

A well-balanced China in Africa book. Naturally China is following its own interests -- the new players on the block can by its presence gives African countries new opportunities for development.

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Reviewed by The Independent (30 Jun 2012), The Guardian (1 Jul 2012)

I saw the author on The Daily Show and (somewhat surprisingly) her books sounds super interesting.

She's right. China is planning ahead and acting wisely and the US is going to pay dearly for being shortsighted.

A great read, a good compilation of the worlds resources numbers...great work. Very Informative

Moyo gave an excellent, well researched, report on the current state of Chinese activities without fear-mongering or moralizing. Certainly one of the most enjoyable reads I have had of late.