Financializations of Development

Ève Chiapello is Professor (Directrice d'Études) at EHESS (School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), Paris, where she holds a chair on "the sociology of transformations of capitalism". Her present work is about the financialization of public policies, on which she has organized a series of international conferences with the University of Hamburg financed by the Anneliese Maier Research Award received in 2016 from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation. She is a member of CEMS (Centre d'Étude des Mouvements Sociaux - EHESS/CNRS- UMR 8044- INSERM U1276).

This book brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies.

Introduction: Financializations of Development, Ève Chiapello, Anita Engels, Eduardo Gresse Part I: Financing Development 1. Why development finance institutions are reluctant to invest in agriculture... And why they keep trying, Antoine Ducasteln, Magalie Bourblanc and Camilla Adelle 2. How Private Equity Turns Development Finance into a Market Opportunity, Océane Ronal 3. The Financialization of EU Development Policy, Luis Mah 4. Shifts and Hurdles in the Urbanization of Development Finance, Monika Grubbauer and Hanna Hilbrandt 5. The financialization of infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa, Kate Bayliss and Elisa Van Waeyenberge 6. The Financialization of Sustainable Development Goals, Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse and Fernando Preusser de Mattos 7. Financial circuits of vaccine procurement in the era of global health, Véra Ehrenstein 8. Financialization in development projects and new modes of governance, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez Part II: Finance as Development 9. Financialization Through Payment Infrastructure, Marie Langevin, Andréanne Brunet-Bélanger and Sylvain A. Lefèvre 10. "Top up your healthcare access": mobile money to finance healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa, Marine Al Dahdah 11. Social Cash Transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: Financialization, Digitization and Financial Inclusion, Lena Sophia Gronbach 12. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Mexico, Magdalena Villarreal 13. From social workers to proxy-creditors to bank tellers: financialization in the work of microcredit field staff in a South Indian town, Rajalaxmi Kamath and Nithya Joseph 14. Financial literacy training in Cambodia as a tool to form borrowers' subjectivities, Phasy Res 15. The financialization of the fight against poverty: from microcredit to social capitalism, Isabelle Guérin 16. Financializing development: Processes and Implications: Conclusion, Anita Engels, Eduardo Gresse and Ève Chiapello