A Critical History of Poverty Finance demonstrates how newfangled ‘digital financial inclusion’ efforts suffer from the same essential flaws as earlier iterations of neoliberal ‘financial inclusion.’ Relying on artificially created markets that simply aren’t there among the world’s most disadvantaged economic actors, they also reinforce existing patterns of inequality and uneven development, many of which date back to the colonial era.
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₹656.00A Critical History of Poverty Finance
Bernards offers an astute analysis of the current fintech fad, contextualized through a detailed colonial history of development finance, that ultimately reveals the neoliberal vision of poverty alleviation for the pipe dream it is.
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Dimensions | 21 × 13 × 2 cm |
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Book Author | Nick Bernards |
Edition | 1st |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780745344829 |
Language | English |
Pages | 240 |
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