Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen
landaffairs.bsky.social
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen
@landaffairs.bsky.social
Governance of natural resource investments; Political economy of energy transitions in Africa; Renewable energy; Oil, gas and land; Tanzania & Ghana. Working at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Reading this new book about the high expectations to PPPs mobilising private sector infrastructure investments in developing countries. And the development finance industry's continued lobbying for the model despite limited demonstrated success:
May 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Interesting insights into foreign policies in East Africa. Including a chapter on Tanzania's foreign policy shift towards Israel under President Magufuli
January 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The bias in the notion of 'transitions' from one type of energy to another prevents us from understanding the entanglement and symbiotic expansion of ALL energies. Started reading this book, very promising:
January 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reading this one - from the TAZARA railway over Bagamoyo port to Tanzania's standard gauge railway. And quite a bit on Zambia. Excellent
February 6, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Reading this interesting new book on the effect of Chinese FDI in Africa in terms of spillover effects on productive capacity of local economies. Less positive than some accounts - and based on empirical research so quite convincing...
January 9, 2024 at 12:59 PM
I have started reading this one - promising so far
December 4, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Shinyanga Tanzania - Brexit hairdresser
November 13, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Found this one on oil and gas in Tanzania with details on the early years of TPDC in the bookshop - interesting so far
November 12, 2023 at 9:02 AM
Just got this one on Eskom, power and politics in South Africa - very excited
October 13, 2023 at 12:53 PM