Category: Research Reports
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Global Tax Evasion Report 2024
This report produced by the European Tax Observatory (and authored by Annette Alstadsæter, Sarah Godar, Panayiotis Nicolaides, and Gabriel Zucman) reviews the various initiatives launched over the last 10 years to reduce international tax evasion. Yet despite the importance of these developments, little is known about the effects of these new policies. Is global tax evasion…
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The Middle East and North Africa Gap: Prosperity for the rich, austerity for the rest
This Oxfam briefing paper (by Alexandros Kentikelenis, SaharMechmech, Amine Bouzaiene, Rowaida Moshrif, and Nabil Abdo, October 2023) examines growing inequality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis. It examines the lack of adequate…
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The Growing Debt Burdens of Global South Countries: Standing in the Way of Climate and Development Goals
Nearly 80 low- and middle-income countries are considered by international institutions as being in or at risk of debt distress. Three-fourths of these countries have also been flagged by environmental experts as particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The combined burden of the climate crisis and increasing debt, perpetuated by an unfair international…
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Markets, power, and potatoes: An analysis of agricultural trade between Egypt and Europe
Despite Egypt’s substantial agricultural sector, it grapples with severe food insecurity, relying heavily on volatile global wheat imports. Climate change exacerbates threats to agriculture, impacting small-scale farming in North Africa. High poverty rates, worsened by the 2016 economic crisis, hinder nutrition improvement, especially for children. Egypt’s neoliberal agricultural policies prioritise profit, favouring large-scale farming and…
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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…
