From Climate finance to Green Bonds -Myths and realities of Financing Climate Change in African Countries
GREEN BONDS DEFINITIONS & ORIGIN No specific market definitions of ‘Green bonds’ or regulatory reporting Issuer(s) can define what they think constitute the notion of GB Environmental stewardship is a differentiating factor There does exists: ...
Read More
Financialisation and bond markets
Why bond markets? Issue not whether bond markets are good or not, but whether they can emerge and grow and if so how and with what implications. If a market for long term bonds exists, ...
Read More
Africa in International Bond Market
Fanwell Kenala Bokosi, PhD Executive Director ,AFRODAD Download full presentation here ...
Read MorePathways of Financialization in Africa
Objectives Premises Structural adjustment laid the foundation for informalization and criminalisation at all scales Many assets now vertically linked to offshore spaces and opportunities for corruption global processes of Financialization are linked to national and ...
Read More
Financialisation – 8 FAQs
9 FAQs FAQ1: What is financialisation? FAQ2: Who is the speculator? FAQ3: Which complex financial products matter? FAQ4: Financialisation and the real economy? FAQ5: Financialisation and developing countries ? FAQ6: Financialisation of international development: the ...
Read More
The role of finance in development
The role of finance for development Overview Finance for development – mantra since 2015 Net negative resource flows out of developing countries Official finance and ODA failed to keep up with promises or need Is ...
Read More
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
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
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
Introduction For two years from 2017, Ghana underwent a “banking crisis” which is not fully over with continuing ripple effects.…