Suffering from a similar fate
Neoliberal policy in Sri Lanka has triggered a massive socioeconomic crisis. The way out is not through the IMF, but through redistributing wealth.
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The business of Black death
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
The market decides if we are free
Ghanaian political-economic actors are limited in their ability to change conditions because of massive debt and the influence of investors and loan-makers.
Africa’s austerity apocalypse
The rowing acceptance of what critics of structural adjustment programs have been arguing for decades, (seems to have had minimal impact on the IMF's actions.
Is it too late now to say sorry?
The IMF is now acknowledges its neoliberal agenda over the last couple of decades was a mistake. Should we take them at their word.
The Ghost of the IMF’s Past
The IMF’s latest tussle with the government of Mozambique and Voodoo Economics are among our #WeekendSpecials
What can Africans learn from the Greek crisis?
I asked African and Africanist thinkers and commentators what they make of Syriza's approach to dealing with creditors and what wider connections they can draw to our conditions.
The ‘Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy’ claim
Today's post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.
Joyce Banda has bigger problems than Madonna
After years of being frozen out by Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration, President Joyce Banda has restored the IMF to the top table of Malawian policy-making and pushed through a sweeping reforms at their behest.
More than one specter haunts South Africa
This week, the World Bank issued a report, South Africa Economic Update: Inequality of Opportunity. The
In Praise of Wangari Maathai
Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.
When You Refuse, You Say No
The intersection of rape, power, and impunity in Guinea has a history that is very recent and very dark.
All black people look the same
A TV news anchor confuses Jesse Jackson with Al Sharpton. Then blames the teleprompter. This is journalism.