Economy

Foreign companies from a range of countries compete in Africa’s mining sector. But according to a number of measures, those from one country dominate: Canada. By Travis Lupick When asked to think about foreign mining contracts in Africa, many people’s minds will jump to China, or perhaps one of the former colonial powers such as […] More

By Alnoor Ladha, Joe Brewer, Martin Kirk It’s about time we called out the great myth that mass poverty just is, as if it were a natural part of some universal moral order. Such thinking is both profoundly untrue and disastrously misleading. Poverty is human-made. It is created – knowingly and with scientific efficiency – […] More