Extractivism and dispossession in Mozambique
Gediminas Lesutis discusses his new book, The Politics of Precarity, on the experiences of extractivism, dispossession, and resettlement in
Tag : Structural Adjustment
What Next for IDA?
Professor in Practice in LSE Department of International Development Mark Lowcock and Research Assistant with the Center for Global Development
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Liberia’s Political Economy of Belonging: an interview with Robtel Neajai Pailey
In this interview with Robtel Neajai Pailey, ROAPE asks her about her new book Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The
The New Intellectuals of Empire
In a powerful polemic against the new intellectuals of empire, Yusuf Serunkuma addresses an African audience. Serunkuma warns his audience of a new
Sudan: prisons, jockeys and contraband cars
Magdi el Gizouli argues that the new prison complexes in Sudan’s major towns are part of the legal scaffolding of the privatisation and austerity
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If the Washington Consensus was really over, what would that look like for development strategy?
If it still looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck – then it probably still is a duck. Recent years have witnessed a notable
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The World Bank and Covid-19: the private investment broker of the Global South
Despite cosmetic rebranding, the World Bank continues its decades-long work of pushing power into the hands of private capital. Sean Taylor explains
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Reflections on aid and regime change in Africa: a response to Cheeseman
In a response to Nic Cheeseman’s call for strengthening patron-client relations between western donors and African governments, Jimi O. Adesina,
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Running while others walked: Remembering Thandika Mkandawire
Always running while others walked: Remembering Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) ROAPE’s Rama Salla Dieng interviews Adebayo Olukoshi on the life
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The Political Economy of Aid in Zimbabwe
Farai Chipato discusses the massive influx of donor money into Zimbabwe’s civil society in the 2000s which created ‘briefcase NGOs’, where