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EVENT: Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential of Islamic finance

February 17th, 2012 by Tom Law
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Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential of Islamic finance

2012 LSE-Harvard public lecture on Islamic Finance
Date: Wednesday 22 February 2012
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Mukhtar Hussain, Professor Volker Nienhaus
Chair: Justice Cranston

It is felt that conventional financial systems have failed and should be replaced, or supplemented, by more ethical banking and socially responsible finance. Can Islamic Finance, as a system with a strong religious background and moral framework, satisfy this hope?

Mukhtar Hussain is chief executive officer at HSBC Malaysia.

Volker Nienhaus is visiting professor, University of Reading.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #lseislamfin

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Book Launch: Sudan Looks East

January 25th, 2012 by Tom Law
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Date: Monday 30th January 2012, 6-8.30pm

Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS

Chair: TBC

Book launch with the editors of Sudan Looks East (James Currey, 2011).

South Sudan’s recent moves to halt oil production, and the Chinese intervention to try to broker an oil deal between Juba and Khartoum, have once again drawn attention to the importance of China’s role in the Sudans, as well as the role of Indian and Malaysia oil investment.

A year after the historic referendum in favour of South Sudan’s independence, this panel will consider relations between the two new Sudans and their Chinese, Indian and Malaysian allies. It does so at a critical time, amidst ongoing conflict, economic difficulty and tense relations between Sudan and South Sudan, as well as heightened expectations about what China can do to assist a final settlement between Khartoum and Juba.

About the Editors

Daniel Large has been research director of the Africa Asia Centre, Royal African Society at SOAS, and is a research associate with the South African Institute of International Affairs’ China in Africa programme.

Luke Patey is a Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen.

http://www.jamescurrey.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13792

What the publisher says

By successfully turning to China, Malaysia and India from the mid-1990s, amidst civil war and political isolation, Khartoum’s ‘Look East’ policy transformed Sudan’s economy and foreign relations. Sudan, in turn, has been a key theatre of Chinese, Indian and Malaysian overseas energy investment. What began as economic engagements born of pragmatic necessity later became politicized within Sudan and without, resulting in global attention.

Despite its importance, widespread sustained interest and continuing political controversy, there is no single volume publication examining the rise and nature of Chinese, Malaysian and Indian interests in Sudan, their economic and political consequences, and role in Sudan’s foreign relations. Addressing this gap, this book provides a groundbreaking analysis of Sudan’s ‘Look East’ policy. It offers the first substantive treatment of a subject of fundamental significance within Sudan that, additionally, has become a globally prominent dimension of its changing international politics.

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EVENT: Peace, Bread and Land: Agricultural Investments in Ethiopia and the Sudans

January 20th, 2012 by Tom Law
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Worth a look if you are in London:

Peace, Bread and Land: Agricultural Investments in Ethiopia and the Sudans
Wednesday 25 January 2012 10:30 to 11:30 GMT
Location: Chatham House, London
Participants: Jason Mosley, Author and Senior Analyst, Oxford Analytica
Chair: Rob Bailey, Senior Fellow, Chatham House

Type: Research and other events
This event will mark the launch of a new briefing paper on agricultural investments in the Horn of Africa. Broad narratives of ‘land-grabbing’ – seeing governments as unwitting victims or as predatory regimes – are a potentially misleading oversimplification in the region, where local populations do not lack agency in this process. Yet investment in land is not conflict-neutral, and given the history of violent conflict and mutual destabilization in the region there is potential for localized political grievances to turn into wider regional conflict.

The briefing paper seeks to look beyond simplistic generalisations regarding land investments, whilst drawing out some of the risks such investments may face for investors, local communities and governments.

http://www.chathamhouse.org/events/view/181247

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Economist: East Africa’s drought

October 6th, 2009 by Tom Law
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The Economist reports on how in East African countries such as Sudan lack of rain – and in some cases too much of it – has caused food insecurity and fuelled conflict.

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Al Jazeera English: Sudan’s rural riches attract investors

May 17th, 2009 by Tom Law
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“Despite internal conflicts and an inability to feed its own people, Sudan believes it can be not only Africas breadbasket, but also the world’s.”

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Al Jazeera English: South Sudan’s economic boom leaves many behind

March 11th, 2009 by Tom Law
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Since a peace agreement in 2005, which ended nearly two decades of civil war in southern Sudan, there has been a huge rise in foreign investment in the region.

But despite billions of dollars of foreign investment many southern Sudanese are unable to take advantage.

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Al Jazeera English: Oil boom in Sudan pushes urban development

June 22nd, 2007 by Tom Law
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“Sudan’s economy is booming thanks to swelling oil revenue. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Vall takes a close look.”

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