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Restricted participation: Drivers, experiences and implications of disability stigma in Ethiopia
(2023)
Background: Community-based inclusive development (CBID) acknowledges society’s critical role in supporting the active participation of persons with disabilities. However, research on how this approach relates to the ...
Meta-trends in Global Value Chains and Development: Interacting Impacts with COVID-19 in Africa
(2020)
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect prospects for foreign investment and development in Africa? In part this depends on its interaction with pre-existing meta-trends in the global economy, such as the rise of China and ...
China's Spatial Fix and 'Debt Diplomacy' in Africa
(2022)
Mounting overaccumulation of capital and material has compelled the Chinese government to seek solutions overseas. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with its transregional infrastructure projects connecting Eurasia and ...
From "debt diplomacy" to donorship? China's changing role in global development
(2022)
Since the mid-1990s the Chinese state and the country’s businesses have significantly increased their activity throughout the Global South. In International Development, China’s impacts on this varied meta-region have ...
Going Viral? The Impacts of COVID-19 on Sino-African Relations
(2021)
How are we to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on geopolitics and
specifically the relations between China and Africa? Is the pandemic a conjunctural event,
which will not have lasting impacts, or does it represent a ...
Dependence not Debt Trap Diplomacy
(2020)
Every few years in the West – in the media and in political circles – there is a moral panic about the rise of
China. Africa often plays a central role in this: as a supposedly predatory China is counterposed against
r ...
Between Energy and Politics: Ruin, Renewal, and the Contours of State Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2024)
South Africa’s energy system is in the midst of significant change and disturbance. On the one
hand, a decrease in available generational capacity means that planned blackouts, known as load
shedding, have increased to ...