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The Dig: Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Consensus, and today’s Wall Street Consensus.

February 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Explains how our global economic systems link up with the political ones, from the IMF’s structural adjustment to “public-private partnerships” Listen Here  

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Economics

Ndongo Samba Sylla: Neoliberalism’s Colonial Origins

June 14, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

For those who have studied the history of colonial Africa through its fiscal and monetary dimensions, the similarities between colonial macroeconomics and neoliberal macroeconomics are striking. Read here

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Economics

The MMT Podcast – Ndongo Samba Sylla: The CFA Franc & The Movement For Monetary Sovereignty In Africa

June 2, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Patricia and Christian talk to Senegalese development economist and author Ndongo Samba Sylla about the political challenges facing countries with limited financial sovereignty and Africa’s last colonial currency – the CFA Franc. Listen here

Economics

Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla

May 13, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Maurice Höfgen and Julien Mathieu Niemann »There is nothing more political than money.« This simple sentence is the very quintessence of the book. Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla explain the history, […]

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Ndongo Samba Sylla – The CFA Franc as a vivid symbol of colonial continuities in Francophone Africa

March 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

How monetary policy in Africa has been dominated by a consensus formed in Europe and the United States. In France’s former colonies in West and Central Africa this has helped preserve the substance of empire […]

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Economics

Africa’s Pandemic Response Calls for Reclaiming Economic and Monetary Sovereignty: An Open Letter

September 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We wanted to speak directly to the average person in their own language without the filters of government institutions and mainstream media. We are hoping that this letter will spark a broader public discourse about […]

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Climate Crisis

Ndongo Samba Sylla – Unsustainable Western Exceptionalism

August 18, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We only have one planet, so the levels of consumption and waste that mark western Europe and North America are not achievable everywhere. The idea of development must be de-westernised. Ndongo Samba Sylla is Research and […]

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Economics

Ndongo Samba Sylla – What does MMT have to Offer Developing Nations?

February 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ndongo Samba Sylla on MMT for developing nations. Ndongo Samba Sylla is Research and Programme Manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. He is the editor and author of a number of books including The Fair Trade Scandal […]

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Economics

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Peter Doyle – Abolish Africa’s Sovereign Debtors’ Prisons Now

February 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

In a radical call for reform of the IMF’s pro-creditor and anti-growth approach to indebted countries in Africa, Ndongo Sylla and Peter Doyle argue that the continent has a choice to make. Creditors, using the […]

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Ndongo Samba Sylla and Kai Koddenbrock – European Financialization in the WAEMU

October 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The West African Economic and Monetary Union, WAEMU, a colonial creature by France, but now dominated by both France and the European Union through financialization, has become financially dependent and saddled with socio-economic challenges it […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

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Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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Do You Want to Know the Truth? by Rupert Read

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Book Review by Alison Teal Honesty is the key word for Rupert Read’s new book Do You Want to Know the Truth? Rarely is this book what one would consider ‘light’ reading. Collecting some of […]

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