'America’s marquee effort to finance private sector activity in the devping world is tilting against African industrialization—financing industrialization elsewhere while focusing on mining in Africa.'

Mostly about reforming AGOA, but lots to unpack...
cgdev.org/blog/renewing-…

On working with informal co-ops...

'Policies need to strengthen the existing welfare systems of co-located businesses to engender firm and employment growth. These are stronghlds of cooperative behaviour that need to be protected rather than displaced.'
nation.africa/kenya/news/why…

This is a bailout, a life boat for investors and bondholders who stand to lose much, much more from bankruptcy. It is not 'nationalisation' which would cost much, much less. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time

📢Join us from April 17th to 20th, 2024, for an innovative seminar titled 'Feminising Urban Struggles: Bodies, Territories, and Politics in Peripheral Spaces.' This four-day event will delve into the important role of women in shaping urban landscapes and building solidarity.

One year of war in Sudan. It's worth revisiting this podcast with Alsanosi Adam, Khartoum-based organiser speaking about the mutual aid response plus the wastage of foreign donors, who distrust voluntary grassroots efforts.
crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…

Delighted to share a new publication in Urban Geography from our 2021 project funded by the German Research Foundation Cultural and Social Geography, HU Berlin Jeffrey Paller African Cities Research Consortium Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 tandfonline.com/eprint/REB3B9G…

some important national/regional geo-ethnopolitical matters here 👇

Jamaica is a poster child for the IMF. The govt has prioritized servicing its foreign loans for decades leading to lower growth and massive social costs. What could those 7% primary surpluses have yielded if they had been invested in the Jamaican ppl?

ft.com/content/c78a18…

The Worlds of Labor in Ghana’s Gold Mining Industry, c. 1895–1957 | International Labor and Working-Class History | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3UdZ39x

Really good panel, launching Deluge, a new book on Gaza with a who's who list of contributors. We are so lucky to have independent publishers like OR Books putting out work like this (follow them!).

'Every life is a whole world' - Razia Iqbal (chair)

youtube.com/watch?v=Dn715Q…

New open access paper in Progress in Human Geography w/ Marcus Power on 'Rendering development investible'! We explore the governmental rationality of Development institutions and professionals in the current financialised conjuncture tinyurl.com/tkb7ss2p /1

“This book… sheds new light on feminist struggles over land, labour and social reproduction, and enriches our understanding of popular movements and women’s struggles for emancipation across the rural–urban divide.”
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Brilliant and exceptionally valuable work here by Beirut Urban Lab’s Gaza team.

New open access book, *The Politics of Revenue bargaining in Africa*. Looks very worth the read.
global.oup.com/academic/produ…

This really covers a lot of ground. Situates current trends in a sweeping review of post-independence political economy with lots of striking examples. Interesting too on the balance of public & *Tanzanian* private ownership, plus learning from China/Vietnam's industrial strategy