Are shareholders the main beneficiaries of the global apparel industry?
By Felix Maile and Cornelia Staritz
Who captures most of the profits created in the global apparel industry? In this blog, we question the dominant perception of stock markets serving as the major ‘source of finance’ for apparel corporations to run their operations. Analyzing patterns of value creation and capture as well as corporate financing in the past 30 years, we come to a different conclusion: Stock markets barely contribute to apparel lead firms’ financing. Instead, apparel lead firms have funded stock markets, based on the profits that they generated vis-à-vis manufacturers and workers in their value chains.
Frelimo and the fate of Mozambique: Part 2
By Pedro Alarcón
The general election of 9 October 2024 in Mozambique triggered a political crisis in which hundreds of Mozambicans have been killed, injured or arrested. This blog post seeks to explain its origins and implications. This is the second part in a two-part blog post.
Frelimo and the fate of Mozambique
By Pedro Alarcón
The general election of 9 October 2024 in Mozambique triggered a political crisis in which hundreds of Mozambicans have been killed, injured or arrested. This blog post seeks to explain its origins and implications.
‘Bob Geldof Pay Your Ethiopian Workers’
By Lisa Ann Richey
For 40 years now, Ethiopians specifically, and Africans in general, have been doing the work of being worthy recipients for band aid. Now, they should be recognized for that work and rewarded as workers. As I have argued here, Africa has become a market for profiting from Whiteness. Thus, the reasonable response to fulfill all those generous Christmas-inspired longings, is to pay Africans for their work.
The macro-financial weakness of Europe’s policy on EV manufacturing
By Cornel Ban
Observers of the Chinese EV ascendancy are correct in highlighting how China’s industrial policy, rare earth abundance, and subsidies have left Europe lagging in the race to electrify the automobile industry. Yet, their analysis misses three crucial financial dimensions underpinning China’s success in cleantech innovation and EV leadership.
Inequality and bricolage in collaborative North-South research projects
By Daniel Brockington, Caleb Gallemore, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Ruth John, Kelvin Kamde, Robert Katikiro, Rasul Ahmed Minja, Faraja Namkesa, Christine Noe, Mette Olwig, Stefano Ponte, and Pilly Silvano
Bricolage, open and slow project design, reflexivity and conviviality can help addressing some of the unequal power dynamics that underpin collaborative research projects involving scholars and institutions from the Global North and Global South.
The everyday resilience of theatre students in Ghana
By Rashida Resario, Robin Steedman, and Thilde Langevang
What are the chances that a creative degree will get you a job? What are the chances that that job will be financially rewarding? These are questions often hurled at those with ambitions in creative careers, who decide to pursue creative programmes at the University in Ghana.
Behind the Label: Unveiling the Truth of Prison Labour in Ethical Fashion
By Lisa Ann Richey and Alexander Maxelon
In recent years, ethical consumption has gained significant traction in the global market. Companies like Carcel, a luxury brand selling clothing made by incarcerated women, have emerged, promising consumers the opportunity
Development Finance Institutions: Exploring Their Complex Organizational Identity
By Suhyon Oh My PhD journey was driven by questions I had been asking since I worked as a practitioner and witnessed a new phenomenon in the development cooperation community at the time. And it was precisely after 2015, when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted, that global norms expanded to emphasize that finance…
Why business schools need more field-based courses
By Thilde Langevang, Maribel Blasco and Søren Jeppesen CBS and MUBS Students gathered during the field trip in Uganda In today’s complex world, working life is often characterized by uncertainty, discomfort, and complexity. Students who wish to follow careers in international business or work for organisations in the Global South need skills and abilities to…
In Movement from Tanzania to Northern Italy to Denmark
My first memory of the Corona virus, before we became politicized enough to refer to it as COVID-19, or the “new” Corona virus—or for some special politicians, the “Wuhan” virus—was in Tanzania.
Academic Neocolonialism Redux
Next Wednesday, Bruce Gilley of Portland State University will be giving a lecture to the AfD parliamentary group in Berlin on ‘The balance of German colonialism. Why the Germans do not have to apologize for the colonial period and certainly do not have to pay for it!’.