King's College London. Interests: Political Economy, Politics in Africa, India International Relations, India-Brazil in Africa, Electricity and Infrastructure
🇷🇼 & 🇪🇹 : deux visions audacieuses du développement en Afrique 🌍. Entre infrastructures massives et modernisation, quelles croyances façonnent l’avenir du continent ? Une analyse signée @BarnabyJDye & @BiruckB : https://t.co/OYXciYQZOn
#Afrique#Développement#Rwanda#Ethiopie
📚The e-book of "Africa's Global Infrastructures: South-South Transformations in Practice" is now available #OpenAccess. Check it out for a collection of brilliant chapters on how infrastructures shape and are shaped by Africa's South-South relations: https://t.co/GPSo2UcEeN
@JKPlummer@SaklaniGeog Hello Judith - unfortunately in the true academic style we haven't proposed policy recommendations but were more trying to trace what change has happened and what drove that change. I have sent you the chapter!
Chapter out – How does the World Bank reform? Only through shareholders? Has reform meaningfully changed socio-environmental impacts or do World Bank projects still create widespread negatives? @SaklaniGeog and I write in a new World Bank compendium
https://t.co/yW6wXj72X9
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First quote in the Economist out on India-Africa relations in the context of Adani. Highlighting the role of the private sector in the relationship. Pleasure to engage with @TomGardner18
https://t.co/oHFTF6O4qI
Interested in just transitions and climate politics in Africa?
If so we have a panel at ECAS2025 in Prague you could join.
The panel explores demands for justice in African responses to the climate crisis…..
I was interviewed for SABC's OnTheMove for work on development ambitions and modernisation ideologies across Africa in the last 2 decades - listen here:
https://t.co/bUhpx5YaYF
@Kings_SGA@KingsIntDev
Are there common ideas and policies across illiberal states in Africa? How much does ideology matter? A special issue explores just this theme, analysing a return to modernist development ideology in the last 20 years
https://t.co/NnppvOk84C
Intro: https://t.co/3m1ZeDE35Y
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@Kings_SGA Interview on this article broadcast on Australia's ABC https://t.co/i0p5Rj1GYK
I review the article's main findings, the motiviations for India in Africa and relations between continent and country in the context of the G20
Interview on this article broadcast on Australia's ABC
https://t.co/i0p5Rj1GYK
I review the article's main findings, the motiviations for India in Africa and relations between continent and country in the context of the G20
Far from displaying signs of a rapid take-off, ties between India and Africa are bumpy.
In a recent article, Dr @BarnabyJDye explains how the relationship has not lived up to expectations and outlines what is needed to boost political ties.
Read:
https://t.co/QBtZP3F4S7
How do Brazilian and Indian relations with Africa compare and how do both engaged in infrastructure bulidng? A new chpater with @mat_alencastro and Prof. Soares de Oliveira analyses this the boom in both countries’ infrastructure building, and their fall
https://t.co/Lzz89PjIYY
... emphasising the private sector as a serious agent in forging international relations. Second, we demonstrate how domestic politics is refracted into the international sphere, shaping both state's development cooperation and ultimately, infrastructure sucesses and failures.