While people often like to believe otherwise, the international development community is not immune to racism. Dismantling the blind spots in international development.

We are, in short, fair-weather democrats. The reason seems our distorted view of policy, science, and politics. This article therefore presents three arguments why this crisis demands more, not less democracy.

The eyes of the world are on emerging powers. Generally, we consider these to be countries, but other powers are emerging: the world’s megacities.

A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of in the media as the ‘lost’ or ‘hopeless’ continent. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, largely because of the impact of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. What is the broader meaning of the rise of these Southern powers for Africa and what problems and potentialities for development does this conjuncture create?

What was a relentless military dictatorship only a few years ago is now an applauded ‘democracy’. But not everybody is joining in with the clapping.

Will the BRICS Development Bank’s constructive capacities overcome its destructive ones? The world is watching.