Inclusive or Exclusive Global Development?
Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York, United Kingdom York, England, United KingdomMicrofinance and then financial inclusion have become buzzwords in international development. Such initiatives have mobilised and generated large amounts of development funding, despite substantial amount of critique. Such critiques call for a more impartial assessment of the effectiveness of financial inclusion on the grounds that funds for microfinance, they argue, displaced development spendings on healthcare, …