🚀 Now OUT: New BWP report analyses energy conditionalities in World Bank DPF, which is paving the way for energy privatisation in LMICs - constraining different energy transition models rooted in sovereignty and national ownership

tinyurl.com/DPF2024

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Finishing to review a couple of papers on MMT related topics and this leads me to share a few things. If you equal MMT to QE, fiscal dominance and/or a push for monetary financing to accommodate its other policies, then you need to improve your understanding of MMT. 1/

'Franc CFA: les conditions sont réunies pour remplacer la monnaie héritée du colonialisme .' Merci The Conversation Africa pour la traduction!

Si le Senegal et l'Alliance des Etats du Sahel adoptaient une stratégie coordonnée de sortie, la fin du Franc CFA viendrait

theconversation.com/franc-cfa-les-…

Afrique francophone : «Le nouveau maître colonial, c’est la finance globale». L’économiste Ndongo Samba Sylla Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social dénonce l’illusion démocratique des pays d’Afrique francophone.

Entretien :
liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…

The #NewInternationalEconomicOrder ( #NIEO ) was created by the #G77 in 1974.

The G77, a coalition of Global South countries, sought to address the economic disparities and imbalances in #GlobalSouth nations.

#ReviveNIEO 2/7

LPE❗️- 'Money, Empire, & The Law' 💸🪖🇺🇸🌎🥾⚖️🤯

Looking forward to learning tons on Friday + moderating a Saturday panel w/ friends
Saule Omarova Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Karina Patrício & Kangle Zhang
+ facilitating Saturday's closing remarks

in-person + Zoom deets in thread below

Next week, CSDWestminster and ROAPE journal will welcome Pascal Bianchini, Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social and Leo Zeilig for the launch of their new edited collection REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA.

Find out more: bit.ly/4aomfaN

Attend two important ROAPE books launches (with publishers Pluto Press & Ebb) in London next week - 18 April Rev movements in Africa & 19 April Voices for African Liberation (with speaker Hakim Adi) Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Liberated Texts Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa Centre of African Studies

Honoured by this endorsement from Achim Steiner, head of UN Development!

My book argues that the global decarbonization agenda (as currently pursued) & rising green protectionism is increasing disparities between & within nations, jeopardising the @UN central promise of leaving no one…

Mali, Burkina, Niger, Sénégal:
Un tournant s'enclenche-il vers l'indépendance économique?
《 En démocratie, c’est le peuple qui décide. En Françafrique, c’est d’abord et avant tout l’Elysée. Du temps de l’empire colonial jusqu’à nos jours, la France s’est immiscée dans les…

🇸🇳 #Sénégal : les défis d’un souverainisme démocratique.
Dans une région secouée par les putschs, le nouveau président Bassirou Diomaye Faye revendique un projet de rupture inspiré d’un « #panafricanisme de gauche ».
Analyse par François Polet (@CETRI_)
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cetri.be/Senegal-les-de…

Wrote a piece on why the current constellation of forces in West Africa including Bassirou Diomaye Faye's 'Left Panafricanism' might finally set the stage for the end of the Franc CFA colonial currency Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Amzat Boukari-Yabara Dr Rama Salla DIENG 🇵🇸 theconversation.com/cfa-franc-cond… The Conversation Africa

How this will be dealt with will be revealing of a broader change —or not—in orientation towards the roots of “development” challenges and the limits to this promised political revolution

Faye-Sonko face au défi du 'système dette': 'c’est près de 18 milliards de dollars, soit environ 11 000 milliards de francs CFA qui devront être payés aux créanciers du Sénégal durant la période 2024-2029'

seneplus.com/opinions/sorti…

At long last Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social I have the book. Diving right in

Pour le Le Monde diplomatique 🖋 de ce mois, Carayol Rémi a lu et chroniqué efficacement « De la démocratie en Françafrique. Une histoire de l’impérialisme électoral » monde-diplomatique.fr/66769 Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Éditions La Découverte ⬇️

'servicing external debt now blocks progress (in the developing world). Many governments have cut back spending in line with conditions or advice from powerful foreign economic agencies' by Jomo KS and myself for Inter Press Service
ipsnews.net/2024/04/develo…

'With progress towards sustainable development often in reverse, servicing external #debt now blocks progress. Many governments have cut back spending in line with conditions or advice from powerful foreign economic agencies' – write Jomo KS & Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social
ipsnews.net/2024/04/develo…

another insightful reflection on the recent IDEAs conference on the African debt crisis. John Cajas Guijarro 🇵🇸 draws helpful parallels with experience in Latin America on the dynamics around sovereign debt & recurrent patterns of crises Jayati Ghosh Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social C.P. Chandrasekhar

Excited that this is coming out very soon with Oxford Academic !
global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Some very smart people have nice things to say about it (Jamie Peck, Cédric Durand, Heather Whiteside, Shahar Hameiri, Liam Campling, Marion Werner, Adam Hanieh)