Financial Inclusion
From the publisher: Should the public play a greater role within the financial system? Decisions about money are a part of our everyday lives. Supporters promote financial inclusion as a …
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Seeking Virtue in Finance
From the publisher: Since the Global Financial Crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potential for …
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Remaking the Real Economy
From the publisher: Debunking the myths around the current economic belief systems, this book reveals how mainstream perspectives work for the benefit of the organised money establishment, while causing all …
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Nothing ventured
Are venture capital investors and governments missing the same trick? Johannes Lenhard sees opportunities. Venture capital has had deep involvement in the rise of the digital age. Many of the …
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A cross-field punt
A novelist and a mathematician have combined forces to produce a fictional account of the Lehman Brothers’ crash that injects life into soulless corners of financial teaching reading lists. Review …
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Rating agencies downgrading emerging market economies during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ten African countries have been downgraded since the COVID-19 pandemic started – Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, South Africa, Mauritius and Zambia. These …
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A rent-seeking bastard speaks
As isolation and social difference goes viral, it’s time to come together. As the state cavalry charges over the hill to save us all from the viral hordes could March …
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Top asset managers show disregard for harmful impacts of their investments
38 out of 75 of the world’s largest asset managers, with greater assets under management than the GDP of the US and China combined, are stalling on taking action on …
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Investors flee from controversial pandemic bonds
Pandemic bonds sound like a curious financial concept — but they were brought in by the World Bank in 2017 to help developing economies. Against the odds, the coronavirus outbreak …
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Sabotage: The Business of Finance
From the Publisher: Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. In …
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