" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

This briefing revisits the 'Africa rising'narrative. It makes two arguments. First, the 'Africa
rising'narrative at best sits on a shaky foundation. African economies may have registered …

This briefing explains Ghana's recent banking sector failures and renewed debt crisis as
consequences of its uneven and deleterious integration into the global capitalist financial …

The key argument of this chapter is that to grasp the global and uneven character of
capitalist development, it is crucial to place imperialism at the core of our analysis. This is of …

Since the pioneering role of Kenya's mobile money service–M-PESA, a consortium of
international development agencies, philanthropists, academics, tech corporations and …

This paper asks how comprehensive and holistic is the World Bank's current development
model, also known as the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), in Africa? By …

Public sector reform (PSR) is believed to improve the performance of the public sector in
particular and the economy in general by introducing market competition in service delivery …

Objective: To examine underlying political economy factors that enable or impede the
integration of nutrition considerations into food system governance. Design: Comparative …

This dissertation is about security governance and land governance particularly land
guards, landguardism and associated security in Ghana. Its central argument is that land …

In recent years, a euphoric shift has taken place, typified by the narrative of “Africa rising,”
which attempts to promote the idea of an economically emerging continent. In the Afro …