From 12 to 14 September 2018 the conference “Financialization and development policies: Critical perspectives on new financial circuits for international development projects” will take place at the University of Hamburg:
In this conference we look at the ways in which private finance actors or practices are enrolled and associated to the conception and implementation of policies for international development. In parallel to the implementation of policies oriented towards “development goals”, the development landscape has seen over the last decades a transformation in partaking actors that now encompass charitable foundations, multi-national corporations, and financial intermediaries, in addition to multilateral or bilateral public development banks and aid agencies. “Financing development“, in other words finding additional monetary resources, has now become an issue at the top of the agenda of multilateral development actors. Increasingly, these strive to commit private actors and to “lever in“ private money.
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The deadline for submissions is March 6, 2018.
For more information, check the full Call for Proposals.