Notas del episodio
In this second miniseries of Season 2, "Global Finance", we're wrestling with the strangeness of living in a world that aspires to a level of global integration our current systems can't support - and maybe don't want to. In this episode, I reflect on a time when I was beguiled by the feel-good story of microfinancing. Nothing is ever that simple, sadly, when it comes to the easily gamified world of global finance.
NB: There is an error in the script, corrected in the show notes and transcript. Andhra Pradesh is a key location in Poverty Capital, which was written by Ananya Roy.
REFERENCES
Bateman, Milford. "The Rise and Fall of Muhammad Yunus and the Microcredit Model", International Development Series Working Paper. 2014.