The New Curse of Critical Minerals
An updated look at the classic resource curse.
Read more...An updated look at the classic resource curse.
Read more...Multinational corporations with global reach are increasingly getting entangled in conflicts and geopolitical rivalries by supporting multiple sides.
Read more...Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
Read more...Does a critique of EU migration policies reveal more than it intended to?
Read more...A dour IMF forecast bodes ill for developing economies and provides more confirmation of crises in the offing.
Read more...How trade liberalization cut Africa’s modest production capacities, industry and food security.
Read more...An assessment of how far BRICS has gotten in creating new monetary arrangements and institutions. The short version is “not very”.
Read more...How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...A recent conference in Colombia assessed the extent of land grabs and how to organize against them.
Read more...What does BRICS want to be when it grows up?
Read more...A status report on France losing its hold in Africa.
Read more...The US is being run out of Niger. A lot of our “hegemon forever” spending is going down the drain.
Read more...How to increase development of pharmaceuticals to treat tropical diseases, which afflict millions yet are neglected?
Read more...Plans suffer from design flaws, cost overruns, and a reliance on Russia for multiple stages of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Read more...Special interests and the lack of a unified vision facilitate corruption. Rising debt levels in the developing world suggest a tipping point.
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