The promise of financial inclusion: finance as future in Palestine

Harker, Christopher

doi:10.1080/04353684.2021.1931398

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“…Still, S. Potts (2020) shows that the role of specific transnational financial flows remains understudied, and subsequently contributes an analysis of creditor litigation against Argentina, highlighting the legal mechanisms through which variegated capitalist relations are extended. Similarly, assemblage inspired work has focused on the way “financial technologies” differentiate themselves in varied contexts, whereby financial inclusion comes to offset accountability into the future (Harker 2021; Kirwan 2021).…”

Section: A Critical Geography Of Money Power and Space In The “Africa...mentioning

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Africa's Next Debt Crisis: A Relational Comparison of Chinese and Western Lending to Zambia

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Brooks

2023

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Africa faces a new debt crisis fuelled by Chinese and Western lending. At the forefront is Zambia, which defaulted on Eurobond payments in 2020. The article sets the developing Africa‐wide crisis within a relational comparison that draws the current Zambian moment together with the financial collapse of the 1980s. By placing Chinese lending within a comparative global frame, we make three contributions. First, Zambia provides a “spatial fix” for capital, but such African borrowing is not passive and shapes hegemonic struggles between China and the US. Thus secondly, Africa's relationship with debt is co‐constituent in the remaking of the global economy, as signalled by the contested execution and interpretation of development‐as‐modernisation. Finally, a relational comparison of the two debt crises demonstrates that global capitalist hegemony is, partly, engineered by the consent and coercion of African governments, yet the human costs of borrowing are fully borne by the world's poorest.

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Section: A Critical Geography Of Money Power and Space In The “Africa...mentioning

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Africa's Next Debt Crisis: A Relational Comparison of Chinese and Western Lending to Zambia

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Brooks

2023

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“…Therefore, policy-makers must implement policies aiming at financial inclusion, providing alternative interventions in this regard in order to tackle poverty (Mader, 2018). Harker (2021) emphasizes the various objects of financial inclusion, such as individuals, companies, unbanked groups, and the economy, as well as differentiates (i) the supply side -the state and private sector, and (ii) the demand sideconsumers, and unbanked people. To study financial inclusion, both individual and country level characteristics need to be determined (Sha'ban et al, 2020).…”

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The Promise of Financial Inclusion for Developing Economies

Gigauri

2022

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Financial inclusion is considered to be a tool to tackle poverty, promote equality, and support economic growth. Sustainable development goals can be achieved through financial inclusion as it implies access to and availability of financial services to disadvantaged groups, especially in developing economies. Despite the fact that financial inclusion is included in the political agenda of many countries, the studies are still scarce in particular from different perspectives and contexts. This paper outlines the characteristics of financial inclusion and aspects shaping financial inclusion. Moreover, implications of Financial Inclusion for developing and emerging economies are investigated and digital technologies in FinTech for financial inclusion are explored. Finally, the recommendations are suggested to eliminate poverty and ensure equality through the financial inclusion agenda.

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Palestinian futures: anticipation, imagination, embodiments. Introduction to special issue

Joronen

Tawil‐Souri

Amir

et al. 2021

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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In After the Last Sky, a text written more than three decades ago, Edward Said (1986:158) wondered how 'most of us [Palestinians]', though never 'tired enough to give up entirely', 'rally to our cause even through a mixture of scepticism and fatigue (after all, how long can you go on losing?) breaks whenever a new campaign gets under way'. To a contemporary reader, it is the question of how long that engenders incredulity: while Said's words embodied a mood that led to the First Intifada (in the late 1980s) and the Oslo Accords that followed (mid-1990s), it is evident today, a full 35 years on, that "plans", from the Trump deal to Oslo -or further, such as the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan for British Mandate Palestine -have been a story of loss for Palestinians. Yet, retrospectively, these plans and proposals have not just imposed ever more rampant 'solutions' for Palestinians. They have also become a geopolitical performance, where the theatre of negotiations and agreements speaks the language of reconciliation and peace, while simultaneously serving to normalise colonial violence in practice. Indeed, the history of "solutions" is not only a history of loss and 'false hope,' as Lori Allen (2021) has recently written, but also a project of obfuscating the violence on the ground -of taking the expanding forms of colonisation, enclavisation, strangulation and displacement as the new starting point for each new plan, proposal and "peaceful" solution.As these opening lines indicate, the collocation of Palestine and "future" conjures vivid but in many ways problematic, even pernicious images. First, and in a normative sense, a Palestinian future is tied to prolonged (and by now somewhat staid) debate around "conflict" resolution, be it one-or twostate. In an important sense, discourses around state-level solutions (and dissolutions) function at the level of thought experiment; there is little realistic prospect of Israeli acquiescence to a Palestinian state of any kind -again raising the question of the role played by geopolitical theatres. The importance of this question is redoubled when one recalls the measures introduced by Israel that have proliferated alongside these geopolitical performances: home demolitions, military campaigns, settlement expansion, land appropriation, mobility restrictions, mass incarceration, an apartheid wall -to name just a few. We see not just a history but a future of continued and entrenched colonialism of the most violent sort: a colonialism camouflaged by a pretence of temporariness (of "occupation", "siege", "interim agreements") and carried out in full view of an indifferent international community that -at the very most -repeats and repeats the importance of continuing the performance, the "peace dialogue". In many ways, therefore, the future is already entrenched into the spatialities of Palestine/Israel, delineated by checkpoints, walls, settlements and less visible forms of subjugation that Palestinians must contend with everyday. These spaces speak: "no solution".The b...

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The promise of financial inclusion: finance as future in Palestine

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References 68 publications

Africa's Next Debt Crisis: A Relational Comparison of Chinese and Western Lending to Zambia

Africa's Next Debt Crisis: A Relational Comparison of Chinese and Western Lending to Zambia

The Promise of Financial Inclusion for Developing Economies

Palestinian futures: anticipation, imagination, embodiments. Introduction to special issue

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