A critical history of poverty finance : : colonial roots and neoliberal failures / / Nick Bernards.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Pluto Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.