The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty

The Akosombo Dam in the Volta River, inaugurated in 1965 during Kwame Nkrumah’s presidency. In June, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ‘From 2015 to 2019’, the network wrote, ‘the world […]