The enormous project brings with it many vital questions, and, currently, few clear answers. What will the negotiations with Africa look like and who will be represented? How will financing be deployed and debt managed? How will land...
French suggests China’s place in the world today, and the increasingly robust manner in which it is engaged in the coastal areas surrounding it, must be understood through a historical lens. While there are clearly economic motivations for...
The Chinese government on Friday has announced debt relief for Sudan worth $160 million saying it would provide additional 500 million Yuan (about $75 million) in financial assistance to Khartoum. China’s debt on Sudan is estimated at more than $10...
In 1954 Arthur Lewis, a Nobel prize-winning economist, argued that development occurs as labour shifts from an unproductive “traditional” sector—activities such as subsistence farming, or petty trade—into modern, capitalist activities. Research by Margaret McMillan, of Tufts University, and Dani...
Globalisation and its sidekick, free trade, are sold to us as the ways for African nations to escape their disastrous economic situation, and join the great nations of the world. So when Barclays Bank starts to question it,...
