The much hyped rise of the “BRICS” (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has lately been met with equally fervent declarations of their demise. Amid slowing growth in many of these countries, the prevailing view now appears to be that the rise of the BRICS was little more than an...

I explore whether the world trading system of the twentieth century can be adapted to address the challenges of the twenty-first. I first develop an understanding of how GATT functioned during the twentieth century, and which features of the economic environment were most important in...

Data coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR -- Historicising Africa's subjugation -- Contextualising the colonial project in Africa -- Data mining, harvesting and datafication -- Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa's sovereignty? -- The 4IR as the mother...

The author introduces an approach for a consensual economic policy for a group of rapidly developing countries as a response to contemporary global economic challenges. This article reconsiders the problems of international economic integration in the period of deglobalization. The author puts...

This paper discusses the need to recognise the evolving purpose of policy space for developing and developed countries in a changing global economic system. This paper examines the changes in rules and regulations in the global economic system, as well as the rise of Global Value Chains (GVCs),...

The IMF responded forcefully to the end of the par value system in 1971 by amending its Articles of Agreement and changing the scope of its interactions with its member states to better help them manage the challenges of a market based international monetary system. In addition to focusing on...

The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the technological innovation also provides impetus to the...

Modern globalization's public goods (provided for the world economy as a whole and which include free flows of trade and factors of production across frontiers, stable rates of exchange, the containment of warfare and mercantilism, the preservation of the environment and latterly the protection...