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New Private Financing for Development: Latin America in comparative perspective
A one-day conference at the Institute of Latin American Studies,
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Senate House, Malet St, WC1E 7HU
23rd November 2018, 9.30am – 5.30pm
Keynote speaker: Professor Benjamin Selwyn, Dept. of International Development, University of Sussex
Over recent decades, the private sector has become increasingly engaged in international development. Corporate and financial actors are now frequently called upon to design market-based models for development, while nation states and NGOs are tasked with mobilising private finance through new public-private partnerships (PPPs). Diverse initiatives have emerged within this landscape, including new forms of corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and impact investment, social businesses and Bottom of the Pyramid schemes, microfinance and ‘green finance’ initiatives, fintech tools and social impact bonds. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the impacts of these trends on development policymaking and practice, and ask where they leave enduring issues of economic and social justice. We will also examine the tensions between local and global frameworks and the influence of changing political contexts on the growth of private development finance, taking Latin America as a regional case study within a broader comparative framework.
If you would like to attend, please register via the following link: https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16432
Dr Jessica Sklair
SeNSS/ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Anthropology | University of Sussex | Falmer, Brighton
Associate Fellow | Institute of Latin American Studies | School of Advanced Study | University of London
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