In this short blog post, I want to make the case for why a critical study of ‘poverty finance’ is crucial to understanding neoliberalism and its limits, following the publication of my new book A Critical History of Poverty Finance.
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ESG investment funds, which claim to invest according to environmental, social and governance criteria, grew to almost US$3 trillion in 2021. With a 53% increase since 2020, this made ESG the fastest growing sector of the asset management industry. The rapid flow of funds into ESG [...]
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Martijn Konings in conversation with Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti
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In the flurry of hot takes on the GameStop adventure, three common features emerge. First, almost everyone agrees, this is so much fun! That a Reddit community of amateur traders could take on a big hedge fund and win – at least temporarily – is cause for a roaring gotcha. Second, the [...]
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Cities across the world are facing a double-barreled existential problem: how to adapt to climate change and how to pay for it. Over the next thirty years, more than 570 coastal cities are poised to face frequent catastrophic flooding owing to sea level rise and more intense storms, while as [...]
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Following the 2007/08 financial crisis the creation of a less unequal and fairer world appeared to be a major prospect. As is by now all too familiar, after the financial crisis, instead of becoming more progressive, societies turned out to be more unequal, with inequalities and asset-based [...]
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“First, it was the tsunami that destroyed our community. Then came the war. Now, it’s microfinance.” — Jesudadan Rajitha, The Federation of Women’s Rural Development Societies.
As the COVID-19 pandemic charts its savage path around the world, it is predicted that [...]
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In April 2012, at the White House on her first visit to the United States since her election in 2010, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff scolded advanced capitalist economies for unleashing a ‘tsunami de liquidez’,a ‘liquidity tsunami’, onto the developing world. The expression liquidity [...]
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