Critical History of Poverty Finance - Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Bernards, Nick (University of Warwick) Bernards
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780745344829
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4482-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science; 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