PUBLICATIONS

Publications

Casualisation of minework breeds discontent and violent protests in Ghana

Contract work which has replaced full employment by mining companies has brought in its wake poor wages and working conditions over the years in Ghana. Refusal by the companies to address these longstanding issues came ...
Read More

Victory over Vedanta

Zambian farmers win ground-breaking legal victory in the UK, reports *Louise Eldridge In a historic ruling, the UK Supreme Court has allowed 1,826 Zambian villagers to continue to pursue their case (Lungowe v. Vedanta) against ...
Read More

Women pastoralists feel heat of Climate Change

For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. But for women pastoralists livestock farmers in the semi-arid lands of ...
Read More

Beyond the Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat, What Next for Ghana?

Ghana won the bid to host the Secretariat of Africa’s Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) on the 7th of July 2019 in Niamey, Niger, during the 12th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State ...
Read More

Develop strong negotiation position to benefit from AfCFTA – TWN-Africa

Third World Network Africa (TWN-Africa), a Pan-African research and advocacy organization, has charged the government to focus on developing a strong negotiation position, in order to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). ...
Read More
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.…