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dc.contributor.authorBernards, Nick
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-18T05:32:06Z
dc.date.available2022-08-18T05:32:06Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.isbn9780745344836
dc.identifier.isbn9780745344829
dc.identifier.isbn97807453a44843
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57960
dc.description.abstractThe definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype? 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. Bernards offers an astute analysis of the current fintech fad, contextualised through a detailed colonial history of development finance, that ultimately reveals the neoliberal vision of poverty alleviation for the pipe dream it is.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarityen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutionsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structuresen_US
dc.subject.otherMicrofinance, Critical Development Studies, Development Studies, G20, IMF, World Bank, Poverty Alleviation, Africa, Fintech, Digital Technologies, Financial Technologies, Microinsurance, Fight against poverty
dc.titleA Critical History of Poverty Finance
dc.title.alternativeColonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye7b13f6b-a18c-4c0b-97b8-d1891104b9c4
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isFundedByUniversity of Warwick
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintPluto Press
oapen.pages240
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/be419fbf-aa68-4acd-884d-86639a89ccfd


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