IMF

In countries like Senegal, the IMF has been complicit with irregular debt practices and fraudulent accounting in order to undermine sovereignty and favour multinational corporations.

Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and…

The US sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.

No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.

In order to allow for a deeper understanding of the ongoing conflict in the Congo today, this newsletter presents an analysis of the resource theft and processes of imperialism and colonialism that have long plagued…

In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics had declined amongst the world’s students. Importantly, they noted that the decline could…

In October, the IMF and World Bank gathered in Morocco for their annual joint meeting – their first such summit on African soil since 1973. In the decades since, the IMF and World Bank have…

To understand the unprecedented contraction of Pakistan’s economy, causing the poor to become significantly poorer, greater scrutiny of how IMF policies undermine economic independence is urgently needed.

Despite having ‘everything necessary to become a powerful, modern, industrialised continent’, in the words of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, the African continent has been plagued by Western intervention in the form of coups, structural…

The third issue explores the contemporary relationship between China and Africa, with a particular focus on how China can support African efforts to industrialise.

On the last day of the BRICS summit, the five founding states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) welcomed six new members: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The…