About The Dark Side of Development
Cyberscams, human trafficking, microfinance over-indebtedness, transnational repression. These are subjects that governments, banks and the development industry doesn’t talk about.
Some of these topics are covered in the media and by expert researchers, but others are largely ignored.
I’m trying here to make a modest contribution to filling some of the gaps.
The Dark Side of Development is updated each week on a Friday, 0500 Eastern time US.
Principal works
Co-author with Sam Rainsy
We Didn't Start the Fire: My Struggle for Democracy in Cambodia – Silkworm Books (2013)
Co-Author With Mu Sochua
“Dictatorship Succession in Cambodia Highlights Southeast Asia’s Human Rights Crisis” in the open access book The Five Decade Journey of EU-ASEAN Relations – Which Path For The Decades to Come ? (The European Liberal Forum and The Paddy Ashdown Forum, 2023). Open Access.
Missionaries and the Colonial State Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972 (Routledge, 2022)
In Search of Rwanda’s Génocidaires: French Justice and the Lost Decades (Seraphim, 2014)
About Me
After 17 years as an editor with Bloomberg News I went freelance in 2018. I’m now a contributor to Financial Times specialist publications Banking Risk and Regulation, The Banker, and Sustainable Views.
I also write for The Diplomat.
I come from Plymouth in the UK studied Modern History at Oxford University’s Balliol College 1988-1991. I have worked in Paris since 1996. I got married in 1993 while teaching English in Japan. We now have three grown up children.
In 2020 I obtained my PhD from Exeter University in the UK on missionaries in colonial Rwanda and Burundi.
Contact:
davidwhitehouse59@gmail.com
