ALLIES AND NETWORK

Allies and Networks

Financialization in the WAEMU

The West African Economic and Monetary Union, WAEMU, a colonial creature by France but now under both France and the European Union, through financialization has become financially dependent and saddled with socioeconomic challenges it can’t ...
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Ghana’s ASM Policy and Regulatory Regime with Focus on Gold

Ghana/World Bank: THE MULTI-SECTORAL MINING INTEGRATED PROJECT (MMIP): Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Formalization Project SECTION I: POLICY, IMPACTS, CONTEXT AND CURRENT PRACTICES MINERALS AND MINING POLICY (NOVEMBER 2014) : PROMOTION OF EFFICIENT ARTISANAL AND ...
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Banks don’t support productive activities—Yao Graham

Banks in the country do not support productive activities in the economy, Coordinator of the Third World Network (TWN), Dr Yao Graham, has said. He said the Ghana’s banking sector was serving as a way ...
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Financialisation and the liberalization of banking and finance in Africa Experiences

Definitions Accumulation in which profits accrue through financial markets and channels rather than the real sector (the production and exchange of goods) – Arrighi (1994), Krippner (2005) The increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, ...
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Development Banking

Context Boom in infrastructural investment and requirement for development financing, including climate finance.                                                                                                                                         Revival of interest in development banking                                                                                         Innovative multilateral efforts: NDB and AIIB Development banks Present across the world and broadly of two ...
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TWN-Africa, ROAPE webinar series takes off FEBRUARY 8, 2022

TWN-Africa, ROAPE webinar series takes off FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Third World Network-Africa together with ROAPE, will hold a series of three webinars starting in August 2021 to explore the…
Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa October 30, 2020

Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa October 30, 2020

SACU member states debate AfCFTA tariff concessions amidst economic realities in the region, as the January 2021 date for trading…
GLOBAL FINANCE AND  AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES:A Prospectus for African Research And Advocacy

GLOBAL FINANCE AND AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES:A Prospectus for African Research And Advocacy

From 19-21 February 2019 Third World Network Africa (TWN-Africa) hosted policy makers, scholars and activists from Africa, and from Europe,…
Crisis, Restructuring and Challenges of Finance in Development: Recent Experiences of Banking in Ghana

Crisis, Restructuring and Challenges of Finance in Development: Recent Experiences of Banking in Ghana

Introduction For two years from 2017, Ghana underwent a “banking crisis” which is not fully over with continuing ripple effects.…