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“Having Experience of What to Do to Succeed”: Unsettling Neoliberalism Through the Lived Experiences of Microcredit Trader‐Borrowers in Ibadan

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
wiley   +1 more source

Short‐Term Sustainability: Neoliberal Philanthropy, Dependency, and Divine Economics in Islamic Zanzibar

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic distributive scheme: a concise statement [PDF]

open access: yes
The present paper highlights the institutional arrange¬ment of Islam for distributive justice. It begins with a note that while Islam gives absolute guiding principles about production and functional distribution, its focus of attention is "re ...
Islahi, Abdul Azim
core   +1 more source

Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

The Coin's Third Side: Illiberal Money and the Sociality of a Community Currency

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Classic work in the analysis of money has emphasized the role of the state and the market in giving money its value. This article seeks to build on work that has emphasized the coin's “third side,” in which society serves as a source of monetary value.
Daromir Rudnyckyj
wiley   +1 more source

Banking on Sustainable Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Regulatory Frameworks for SME Finance in the EU and African Union

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how legal and institutional frameworks influence bank financing for sustainable innovation among SMEs in the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU). Using institutional theory, it analyzes how coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures interact across international, regional, and domestic levels to shape green lending ...
Priscilla Akua Vitoh
wiley   +1 more source

Optimising Wave Energy Plant Location Through Neutrosophic Multi‐Criteria Group Decision‐Making

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global shift towards sustainable energy has intensified research into renewable sources, particularly wave energy. Pakistan, with its long coastline, holds significant potential for wave energy development. However, identifying optimal locations for wave energy plants involves evaluating complex, multi‐faceted criteria.
Hafiz Muhammad Athar Farid   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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