Category: Research Reports
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An ocean drowning in capital: Oil, transnational actors and the ocean in Guyana
This issue brief (from the Transnational Institute, 13 Dec 2023) critically analyses Guyana’s ocean economy. Focused on oil and gas, it explores the three circuits of capital, emphasising the severe impacts of the booming oil and gas industry on marine environments and coastal communities. Through interviews, research, and consultation with diverse experts, the publication aims…
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Patrick Bond: Samir Amin’s diagnosis of worst-case racial capitalism
“Nothing has changed, South Africa’s sub-imperialist role has been reinforced”. Published 11 November by Patrick Bond on CADTM. // Samir Amin’s critiques of both apartheid-era and post-apartheid political economy contributed to his scathing view of the crucial ‘semi-peripheral’ layer of the world system, a perspective typically ignored in binary formulations of Global North and Global South. Amin’s 1977…
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Chronicles of Debt Crises Foretold
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Originally published on Wiley Online Library, 5 Sept 2023. Also published on IDEAS Blog. / / The debt crises looming in developing countries are being exacerbated by changing debt composition. Declining net foreign exchange earnings have worsened their predicament. As concessional development finance declined, many governments turned to riskier…
