17–19 Jun 2020
Civic Centre
Europe/London timezone

Changing markets and social development in Africa: technology, norms and practices

19 Jun 2020, 14:30
1h 30m
Stephenson Room

Stephenson Room

Panel Africa and International Studies Working Group

Description

This panel explores the changing nature of the responses to African developmental challenges. It highlight the roles that technology and changing political and economic norms are is playing in transforming markets and how this is impacting on strategies of development across the continent. The papers tackle these issues from a range of perspectives, from exploring the international community’s role, to analyses of specific economic sectors. The panel challenges conventional understandings of the role of foreign direct investment and international financial frameworks in shaping African development within the international political economy.

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