Development and
Cooperation

Korinna Horta
last contributed to D+C/E+Z in summer of 2020 as a resident scholar at the University of Lisbon and as an independent researcher and writer.

All articles of Korinna Horta

AIIB President Jin Liqun.

Multilateral development banks

Too many loopholes

Rural people protesting against their village being submerged because of Omkreswahr dam on the Narmada river in 2012.

Infrastructure projects

Paying the price for development

Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank.

International finance institution

Dangerous transformation

Indigenous people rallying against an infrastructure project in Brasília in 2013.

Multilateral bank

Reform gone wrong

Indigenous people protest against Belo Monte dam in Brasilia in 2013.

International financial institutions

Concern for the most vulnerable

Michael Cernea

Eminent scholar

Marked by displacement

Protest in Hong Kong: China’s human-rights record is casting a long shadow over how the AIIB might operate in the future.

Global role model

Harmful competition

Boat on the Niger river in Mali: dams on rivers can endanger the livelihoods of fishing communities.

Global role model

Rolling back protection

Industrial logging is  a driver of deforestation: truck in Sabah, Malaysia.

Forests degradation

The end of over-optimism

Monitoring showed that World Bank loans in support of the DRC government focussed on logging revenues rather than the fate of people who depend on forest resources: men building a raft to transport timber downstream.

International Finance Institutions

Most relevant review

At D+C/E+Z, we are proud of our international network of authors. It is particularly important to us to be a platform for voices from the global south. Some authors contribute on a regular basis, others don't. Here you can find information about the people behind the contributions.

All authors