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LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:Discussion on the Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit: Development\
 , Debt and Disillusion
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION: \n\n[A Side Event to the Intergovernmental Group of Experts o
 n Financing for Development (7-9 November 2018)]\n\n \n\nFew developmenta
 l fixes of the neoliberal era have captured the hearts\, minds and pockets
  of the international development community\, philanthropists and governme
 nts as much as microcredit. But in recent years\, the microcredit model ha
 s been subject to scrutiny and intense criticism.\n\nThis book shines a li
 ght on the fundamental problems surrounding micro credit\, including the i
 mpacts of dramatically rising levels of micro debt. Seen from the perspect
 ive of financialization\, corporate rentierism and development finance\, t
 he book offers policy directions to move beyond this “fake” solution f
 or poor households.\n\nCHAIR:\n\n\n\nDiana Barrowclough\, Senior Economic 
 Affairs Officer\, Globalization and Development Strategies Division\, UNCT
 AD\n\n\n\nPANEL OF AUTHORS:\n\n\n\nRichard Kozul-Wright\, Director of the 
 Globalization and Development Strategies Division\, UNCTAD\n\n\nMilford Ba
 teman\, Freelance consultant on local economic development\, Visiting Prof
 essor of Economics\, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula\, Croatia and Adjunc
 t Professor of Development Studies\, St Marys University\, Halifax\, Canad
 a\n\n\nStephanie Blankenburg\, Head of the Debt and Development Finance Br
 anch\, UNCTAD\n\n\nDaniel Munevar\, Economic Affairs Officer\, Debt and De
 velopment Finance Branch\, UNCTAD\n\n\n\nAnd introducing a new UNCTAD publ
 ication: The Ins and Outs of Inclusive Finance: Some Lessons from Microfin
 ance and Basic Income – edited by Diana Barrowclough\n/publication/ins-a
 nd-outs-inclusive-finance-some-lessons-microfinance-and-basic-income\n\nVi
 ew meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/discussion-rise-and-f
 all-global-microcredit-development-debt-and-disillusion
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