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Universalising Financial Inclusion and the Securitisation of Development

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  • Susanne Soederberg

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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis the G20 leaders have attempted to universalise financial inclusion as a key development strategy Financial inclusion, which has long been championed by official development institutions as a sound and effective market-based solution to combat poverty, is also now promoted by the G20, not only as a way out of the ongoing global recessionary environment but also as an important scheme to stabilise the world economy. To this end the G20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group forged the G20 Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion in 2010 (the G20 Principles). Drawing on a historical materialist lens, I argue that the G20 Principles— which represent extensions of, as opposed to a departure from, the neoliberal development project—serve to legitimate, normalise, and consolidate the claims of powerful, transnational capital interests that benefit from finance-led capitalism. The primary way this is achieved is through obscuring and concealing the exploitative relations and speculative tendencies involved in financial inclusion strategies.

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  • Susanne Soederberg, 2013. "Universalising Financial Inclusion and the Securitisation of Development," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 593-612.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:4:p:593-612
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.786285
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