Nov 25, 2020 | Politics and governance
By Barnaby Dye On the 27 August 2012, a small group of pirates triggered the first of two major power crises in Ghana. Attempting to escape from the Togolese Navy on a captured oil tanker, the pirates left the ship’s anchor trailing. It snagged on the West African Gas...
Jun 12, 2020 | News, Politics and governance
Barnaby Dye, The Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 14th July 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wq6uGTxnAbc In the 21st Century, India has become a dam builder in Africa. In line with booming development cooperation with the...
Apr 23, 2020 | comment, News, Politics and governance, Social impacts
By David Hulme and Barnaby Dye, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Today we live in a lockdown world as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across countries and continents: air travel has virtually ceased; billions of people have been told to stay at...
Feb 28, 2020 | News, Politics and governance
By Barnaby Dye What factors drive countries’ economic development? Is it still possible for Africa to follow the trajectory of the Asian states that saw rapid industrialisation in the latter half of the 20th century? A new working paper by Benjamin Chemouni and...
Jan 24, 2020 | News, Politics and governance
Listen to DW’s radio show ‘Living Planet’ to hear FutureDAMS’ Barnaby Dye talk about the safety of dams, how we can improve the planning of integrated water-energy-food-environment systems using the FutureDAMS integrated assessment toolset and...
Jan 6, 2020 | Politics and governance, Uncategorised
By Barnaby Dye Africa has experienced a dam boom since the mid-2000s with projects across the continent being built by the so-called rising powers like China, ‘traditional donors’ (e.g. the USA and Germany) and established international development organisation such...
