Small farmers are the world’s primary food suppliers. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates.
Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi died in 1984, either poisoned or by suicide. His ideas about the international monetary system and the CFA franc are worth...
The spread of democracy and the application of economic policies championed by Western and foreign powers has not led to economic and political development that benefits...
Despite cosmetic rebranding, the World Bank continues its decades-long work of pushing power into the hands of private capital. Sean Taylor explains how the Covid-19 response...
A combination of factors will force some of the most consequential choices our hardened elite have ever made and what they do now will determine what...
In the end, it is up to Kenyans to hold their government accountable for the hardships it created. There is only so much the IMF can...
Stabilisation, liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation: what do these four pillars of structural adjustment augur for Kenya’s beleaguered public health sector?
The Jubilee government would have us believe that the country is economically healthy but the reality is that the IMF has come in precisely because Kenya...
Only with careful concerns for the human cost of Ecuador’s capital outflows, fiscal consolidation, and wage ‘rationalization’ can the IMF make good on the bloody legacy...
Six years of fiscal profligacy have finally caught up with the Jubilee administration. Money is short, it now admits, and the begging bowl is out. The...
With Uganda’s history of poor public administration and disastrous debt management, corruption, and increasing civil unrest and repression, what was the basis of the IMF’s optimism?...
The US is supervising a coup in Venezuela. The pretext: Nicholas Maduro’s brutality, the state’s record of widespread human rights abuses, does not wash. In August...
