Bringing significant benefits to an emergent middle class, Dhaka’s cultural, economic, environmental and political landscapes are being rapidly but unevenly transformed.
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Some economists have touted the rising middle class as a panacea for Africa’s challenges. But a more realistic diagnosis of what makes up a middle class is needed.
The gendered nature of social welfare is invisible and taken for granted – particularly in development contexts.It’s time to debate a more gender-sensitive and equitable welfare agenda in the South.
Lula led an unprecedented shift in the country’s foreign policy towards the global South. He also helped elevate Brazil to the status of a global player. But, six years on, disillusionment reigns.
Mapping Web usage shows a new picture of the Internet, one without its core in the West, but rather a mosaic of online regional cultures that mirror offline regional cultural identities.
Many works published on decolonisation originate from Ngugi wa Thiongo’s idea of decolonising the African mind. Imperialism, he writes, has left its mark on the minds of the previously colonised.
In the global South, where some argue that “everyone is now middle class”, people are reluctant to acknowledge that they need to borrow money – and the stigma drives them to dodge their debts.
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Development & Transformation, University of Manchester
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Professor of International Relations and Political Science, St. Thomas University (Canada)
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Associate Professor of Innovation Finance, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Toronto
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CIGI chair in Gloal Migration and Development, Professor of Geography and Enviromental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Post doctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Media and Communication, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
