Also, processes of democratization in many Southern countries in recent decades have, at the instigation of international organizations such as the IMF or World Bank, gone hand in hand with a liberalization of the economy and extensive acquisition of property and extraction of resources by international capital. But, as suggested by Makoa (2001) in a paper on globalization in eastern and southern Africa, one can wonder what the value of this kind of democracy is if it does not give poor people control over their country’s resources and over the processes that sustain or threaten their livelihoods.