SOAS Economics SOAS Development Studies Uli Volz Yannis Dafermos Sara Stevano Antonio Andreoni Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation Adam Habib Dr Hannah Bargawi Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Excellent discussion on climate finance & int'l financial architecture reform with V20 Finance Ministers Climate Prosperity Fellows, Treasury Department's Adam Wang-Levine & World Bank's Paola Ridolfi moderated by Sir Alok Sharma. Opening remarks by Ghana Deputy Minister of Information Fatimatu Abubakar.

Yesterday we celebrated the publication of An African History of Africa.
My book is the culmination of over 7 years of travel, through more than 30 African countries.
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.
Thank you all for your support!

Zeinab Badawi, President of SOAS, on What the people of Sudan need from us ft.com/content/49e706… via @ft

❓What is the current state of capitalism?

After 2007-09 🌍 Global Financial #Crisis , the world entered a period of transition, prompting crucial questions about the trajectory of global #capitalism .

Read the blog of SOAS University of London Lecturer, Matteo Giordano⬇️
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Financing #green and inclusive #development is a bankable business case of inclusive green #growth and not philanthropy.

Vaibhav Mishra, SOAS University of London Senior Research Fellow presented his paper at the 13th International Conference on Business and Economic Development #ICBED24 New York.

What a week!

Even as the massacres gathered pace, western politicians wriggled out of using the word “genocide”… Kofi Annan: the western powers turned a blind eye. It was an issue of policy, not of lack of knowledge.”The lessons and legacy of Rwanda’s genocide ft.com/content/b6e010… via @ft

Durban, brought to its knees by the most corrupt part of the ANC. ON THE ROAD | Durban's decay: From Surf City to Surf Sh***y news24.com/news24/politic… via @news24

Naledi Pandor takes on SA’s critics in the US. Bringing South Africa to its knees would be self-sabotage for the US ft.com/content/291ee4… via @ft

Brilliant; and worth a read by both supporters of the Palestinian solidarity movement and more mainstream Jewish activists and leaders. The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opi…

Once Africa's world-class city, Johannesburg is decaying before residents' eyes telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… It's been decaying for some time, but selectively. The poorer the suburb the more decay. But now decay is visible and felt, or creeping close, city-wide.

Today Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation is hosting the 2024 Korea-Africa Business Forum in collaboration with the Korea African Foundation and support from Hyundai Worldwide.

Opening remarks from Ban Ki-Moon on promoting new international cooperation focusing on sustainable structural transformation

🤝A delegation from #SOAS University of London, led by its Director Adam Habib, visited #BNU last week.
🎙️BNU's President, Prof. Ma Jun, after extending a warm welcome, applauded the two sides' mutual cooperation in the fields of linguistics and sociology, and said that BNU is…

Interesting! In sum: SA has a future so long as we privatise services & not rely on the state. He is not wrong! But this article is an indictment on the post apartheid political elite in the ANC & its offshoots. The bullish case for South Africa ft.com/content/0c180e… via @ft

I was deeply moved by the horrifying testimonies I heard of family members of victims of the war in Gaza today. Some lost over a hundred relatives.

This horror must stop now.

A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait.

A moment of appreciation for the SOAS Library this #WorldBookDay 😍

📚 Take a look at the collection: bit.ly/49M2Z6T

'It was so important to her that they be used by SOAS, to be seen and continued to be used by students now and in the future.'

Lucy Kauser from the Brunei Gallery SOAS exhibitions spotlights the generous artwork donations from the Late Professor Elizabeth Moore.

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Toddler Anhar from north Gaza had puffy cheeks & bright eyes. 4.5 months of Israel assault turned him into skin & bones. He died of starvation on Tuesday.
I can’t even begin to process the horror his parents may have gone through being unable to feed him.
(via Muhammad Shehada)