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A critical geography of poverty finance

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  • Katharine Rankin

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This paper builds a critical geography of poverty finance with recourse to a relational comparison of the microfinance and subprime mortgage markets. It probes paradoxical claims about the nature of poverty, the poor, states and markets that have surfaced in the aftermath of the financial crisis. In doing so it aims to generate new understandings of neoliberal global finance with specific emphasis on 1) the social constitution of risk through racialised and gendered forms of difference; 2) the exercise of dispossession and imperialism by financial means; and 3) articulations of poverty finance with the social relations of debt in specific conjunctures. Each of these terrains of inquiry forms a subsection of the paper, following a preliminary section that poses the animating paradox in more detail. The paper concludes with some reflections on the conditions of possibility for democratising finance.

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  • Katharine Rankin, 2013. "A critical geography of poverty finance," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 547-568.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:4:p:547-568
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.786282
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    6. Reboul, E. & Guérin, I. & Nordman, C.J., 2021. "The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
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