Coffee Beans being harvested
ATN is a coalition of civil society organizations, trade unions, researchers, and activists drawn from across Africa working on trade issues. Founded in 1998, ATN has worked on World Trade Organisation-related issues, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and other trade and finance-related issues. It seeks to present a coordinated and continent-wide voice that articulates the views of the marginalized and offers alternate policy options relevant for Africa’s development. Notable events at which ATN made its mark included the Seattle, Hong Kong and Cancun WTO conferences where it successfully spearheaded African civil society efforts at preventing the imposition of inimical trade policies on developing countries by developed countries. ATN does its advocacy work at the national, regional, continental and international levels through lobby, capacity building, and campaigns among others. The coalition is currently made up of 50-member organizations from 30 countries in East, West, Central and Southern Africa. TWN-Africa is the secretariat of the Africa Trade Network.
Banks in the country do not support productive activities in the economy, Coordinator of the Third World Network (TWN), Dr Yao Graham, has said. He said the Ghana’s banking sector was serving as a way for taking resources out...
Definitions Accumulation in which profits accrue through financial markets and channels rather than the real sector (the production and exchange of goods) – Arrighi (1994), Krippner (2005) The increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial...
Context Boom in infrastructural investment and requirement for development financing, including climate finance. Revival of interest in development banking Innovative multilateral efforts: NDB and AIIB Development banks Present across the world and broadly of two kinds: those that are...
Where is the biggest money? INTRO global governance & how Africa fits (not) in it governance of global financial system excluding the international and regional development banks governance of financialisation instruments Underlying principles of the governance of the financial...
1. Gigantism, infrastructure and energy • Financialized power leaves its mark on the built environment and the type of development pursued • There is a synergistic relationship between building ‘big’ infrastructure, concentrating power within party-states (and corruption) and the...