1st Edition

Financialisation and Development in Asia

Edited By Toby Carroll, Darryl Jarvis Copyright 2015
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

Multilateral development agencies have increasingly focused on underdeveloped Asian countries as potential new sites for financial capital. Often referred to as ‘emerging markets’, these economies are seen as ripe for private sector investment and, at the same time, in need of foreign capital to support rapid industrialisation, modernisation and poverty reduction. This confluence of interests... Read more

1. Introduction: Financialisation and Development in Asia under Late Capitalism Toby Carroll and Darryl S.L. Jarvis

2. Global Politics of Microfinancing Poverty in Asia: The Case of Bangladesh Unpacked Heloise Weber

3. Innovation and the Entrepreneurial State in Asia: Mechanisms of Bond Market Development Lena Rethel and Timothy J. Sinclair

4. Building a Venture Capital Market in Vietnam: Diffusion of a Neoliberal Market Strategy to a Socialist State Robyn Klingler-Vidra

5. Financialisation through Microfinance: Civil Society and Market-Building in India Philip Mader

6. Market Creation by Leninist Means: The Regulation of Financial Services in the People’s Republic of China Neil Collins and Joern-Carsten Gottwald

Biography

Toby Carroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His most recent books include Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia, and (edited with Darryl Jarvis) The Politics of Marketising Asia.

Darryl S.L. Jarvis is Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Liberal Studies and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. He has published widely in the areas of international relations, regulatory politics and the political economy of investment issues in Asia. His recent publications include (with Toby Carroll) The Politics of Marketizing Asia; and (with Anthony Welch) ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China.