By Stephanie Guthridge As the rising powers continue to expand their reach across the globe, new dynamics have surfaced between the BRICS countries and developing nations. This can be seen clearly throughout Africa, where many multinational corporations have flocked towards it for the exploitation of the continent’s vast natural resources. For example, China and India …
By Pras Boolaky. There is a mutual consensus among scholars and political commentators alike, that aid has failed to lift the poorest continent in the world out of poverty. In Africa today life expectancy has decreased, growth has slowed and millions more have fallen into the poverty trap, when compared with 50 years ago. Aid …
By Alessandro Fiorotto. In a parallel world, this article would be celebrating the progressive and inspiring steps taken by the international community in selecting the first ever World Bank president from a developing country. It would proudly proclaim how far the world has come and what a great sign this is, not only for development …
by Helen Jane Martin. An abyss for the lost and stolen, and a refuge for the takers, failed states are characterised as the black holes of the international system. Somalia, the archetypical failed state, is condemned by policy makers who maintain that it incubates terror, breeds crime, facilitates piracy and infects regions; with stereotypical images …
By Hannah Polly Williams. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is now such an inescapable affliction on our global community it is hard to believe that less than thirty years ago the link had not yet been made between Pneumocystis, later named the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and the deadly AIDS virus. This link was identified in 1983 …
