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World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization: Unveiling Stratification and Hierarchy in the World City Archipelago Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia analyses how states in these areas have adopted different monetary, financial, and foreign exchange policies to govern financialization, which have induced varying levels of state control over financial markets. The book analyzes the puzzling observation of policy divergence by investigating how countries have reacted differently to major financial crises since the 1970s. It ...
Multistakeholder partnerships for development and the financialization of development assistance University of Antwerp
Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for development are being revitalized in the post-2015 era as essential vehicles in financing and realizing sustainable development. This article argues that MSPs for development play a central role as new financial actors in shaping the legal and ideational structures of development assistance, pushing for a financialized development assistance model that relies on the steady multiplication of new financial ...
The financialization of land and agriculture University of Antwerp
Chapter 3 focuses on the financialisation of land and agribusiness, a dimension that is often omitted. Throughout the world, private equity funds, pension funds, special purpose vehicles and hedge funds are increasingly acquiring control over land and agribusinesses. Without underplaying the relevance of finance in shaping other pieces of the food system such as seeds production, transformation and distribution, the present Chapter exclusively ...