In their efforts to industrialise, African states are looking beyond the traditional path of transition from agrarian to industrial economies by seeking to leverage on their natural resources, both in/on land and ocean, to power industrialisation. In this blog post, drawing from a new article [...]
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It has just been announced that the recipient of this year’s prestigious international award, the Joan Robinson Prize, is Franklin Obeng-Odoom who completed his PhD in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. The prize is awarded annually by the European Association for Evolutionary [...]
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In a recent Debate piece, published in Review of African Political Economy and available here, Franklin Obeng-Odoom looks at the debates on growth in Africa. He argues that most of the models in economics were formulated based on experiences outside Africa, raising questions about their [...]
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The creation of one’s interests in others negates the need for persuasion or coercion. That is the central premise of my article ‘Interests need not be pursued if they can be created: Private governance in African gold mining’, published in Business and Politics and awarded the [...]
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