A critical history of poverty finance : colonial roots and neoliberal failures /

Starting from the recent rise of much-hyped 'fintech' (financial technologies) solutions for development finance, which have been heralded by the World Bank/IMF/G20 etc as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty, this monograph provides a critical historical context of development fin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernards, Nick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2022.
Temas:
Poverty.
Economic policy.
Development economics.
Financial services industry > Technological innovations.
Business & Economics > International > Economics & Trade.
History > Modern > 21st Century.
Social Science > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Microfinance.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Poverty finance and the antinomies of colonialism1. A colonial problem
  • 2. Poverty finance and nascent neoliberalism
  • 3. Structural adjustment, backlash, and the turn to the local: Explaining the rise of microfinance
  • Part II. Making markets for poverty finance
  • 4. Commercialising community: Experiments with marketisation
  • 5. From microcredit to financial inclusion
  • Part III. Innovation to the rescue?
  • 6. The forever-latent demand for microinsurance
  • 7. Fintech and its limits
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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