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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala took office as World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General, on 1 March. As the first female and first African in this position, she joins other Africans at the top of powerful multilateral organisations – Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at the World Health Organisation, Dr Amina Mohammed at the United Nations and Makhtar Diop at the International Finance Corporation. There’s a sense that this is Africa’s time at the WTO, and there are great expectations that Okonjo-Iweala will champion the continent’s interests. However, pushing this agenda at the WTO will require str...

Building safer, more resilient African cities requires understanding the historical-institutional roots of the building safety problem. Photo by Virgyl Sowah/Unsplash Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978…

Beijing Consensus January 10, 2021 The Washington Consensus comprises the United States Department of the Treasury, the World Bank and the IMF. The Washington Consensus is a set of ‘economic policy prescriptions’ or a so-called ‘development plan’ for ‘developing countries’. The Washington Consensus revolves around market-led capitalism, trickle-down effect, privatisation, debt-laden stabilisation programs, debt-laden structural reforms and poverty reduction. For the record, a number of developing countries – including Pakistan – have long been under the umbrella of the Washi...

Nigeria has what it takes to achieve first-world development, argues Olisakwe Okafor With the recent protests by youths demanding an end to police brutality and also demanding for better standards of living, it is relevant to explore ways of achieving rapid development and first-world development status for Nigeria within the 2020s decade. The nation’s various governments have published many development plans with the intention of transforming the nation into a first-world country. However, when it comes to implementation, things fall apart. Some of these development plans include the Struc...

Expenditures -- >> austerity. >> austerity parties that were very hard on the population. so, we see increasing inequality in a region that traditionally had very high levels of inequality. >> the backlash in liberalism and imf program called structural adjustment at the time which imf said, we will write down your debt, forgive your debt, write down your debt if you dot following, which is balance budgets, cut social services, et cetera. is that your understanding of this sort of reaction in liberalism and what happened in the couldnntinent in the last decade? >> i think that set of prescript...