Critical History of Poverty Finance - Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures

A comprehensive historical tracing of how the contemporary finance-poverty-development nexus emerged

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Introduction

Part I. Poverty finance and the antinomies of colonialism

1. 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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nick Bernards is Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick. He is the author of A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures and The Global Governance of Precarity: Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nick Bernards, Nick (University of Warwick) Bernards
• Verlag: Pluto
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780745344829
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4482-9
• Seiten: 240
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Werbung, Marketing; Capitalism, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Poverty & unemployment, International Economics, Political Economy, Economic systems & structures, International institutions, Development Studies, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade, Finance and the finance industry