Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Conservation as cost
By: Saliem Fakir 7th June 2019 The conservation movement has been around for a long time. In its modern version, it can be traced to the curiosity of early explorers like Darwin,... →
Independent power producers and Weet-Bix
By: Saliem Fakir 19th April 2019 There is a vociferous attack on independent power producers (IPPs) and renewables in South Africa, despite the energy crisis that the country is... →
Reflection on proposed splitting of Eskom
By: Saliem Fakir 15th March 2019 The mere mention of the splitting of State-owned electricity utility Eskom into three parts invikes the conclusion that it is a Trojan horse for... →
Building sustainable economies through good governance of extractives industry
By: Saliem Fakir 1st March 2019 A pertinent question remains unanswered: Can mining economies lead to sustainable economies? This is an appropriate question to ask in the context... →
The Eskom quagmire
By: Saliem Fakir 1st February 2019 As we enter the year 2019, State-owned electricity utility Eskom, once a success story of South Africa's industrialisation programme, is now an... →
Reflections on global conventions in a postliberal order
By: Saliem Fakir 18th January 2019 I was in Sharm-El Shaik, Egypt, in November at a gathering of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of the Conference of the Parties (COP).... →
Africa’s infrastructure and recent climate report
By: Saliem Fakir 30th November 2018 It was my first attendance at the yearly Africa Infrastructure conference, held in Sandton this year on October 9 and 10. Infrastructure has always... →
Strategic economics in times of uncertainty
By: Saliem Fakir 19th October 2018 In his excellent three-volume work titled Wheels of Commerce, Fernand Braudel describes countries or city states as islands in a world economy.... →
The industrialisation debate in SA – what are the lessons?
By: Saliem Fakir 21st September 2018 Manufacturing has been in slow decline in the past decade or so. The sector has always been treated as a useful link between mining and... →
Using Douglas North’s institutional economics to understand State capture
By: Saliem Fakir 24th August 2018 Douglas North remains an influential institutional economist and his work on institutional economics can help us understand economic development... →