From 19-21 February 2019 Third World Network Africa (TWN-Africa) hosted policy makers, scholars and activists from Africa, and from Europe, and Asia for three day of discussions in on Finance…
Auteur/autrice : Stephen Appraku
Crisis, Restructuring and Challenges of Finance in Development: Recent Experiences of Banking in Ghana
By Stephen Appraku0Introduction For two years from 2017, Ghana underwent a “banking crisis” which is not fully over with continuing ripple effects. Like other crises before, the effects have been potentially cataclysmic,…
News Agencies must paint a complete picture of Corona virus
By Stephen Appraku0To allay fears and prevent unnecessary panic, the media must present the true picture of the state of affairs and not resort to sensationalism, advocates *Ifeanyi Nsofor. [embeddoc url=”http://twnafrica.org/wp/2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Pages-from-AA-23.1-2.pdf” download=”all”]…
Africa feels the negative economic waves of COVID -19 outbreak
By Stephen Appraku0The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus is having a negative economic impact on Africa, an effect that is likely to continue for months to come, *writes Cornelius Adedze.…
Indigenous communities ‘robbed’ as land grabbers lay waste to Brazilian rainforest
By Stephen Appraku0Terra Indígena Ituna/Itatá in northern Brazil is home to several groups of uncontacted peoples who are dependent on the surrounding forest for survival. But outsiders have been increasingly moving in…
Developing countries face major vulnerability challenge
By Stephen Appraku0Vulnerability, with its facets of exposure and dependence, represents a major challenge for the sustained and beneficial integration of developing countries into international trade, the UN Conference on Trade and…
A New Deal for sustainable development
By Stephen Appraku0The world is in need of a ‘New Deal’ that will help propel development, sustainable development just like was done in the US years ago, argue *Jomo Kwame Sundaram and…