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Postdoctoral/Research Fellow in Asia Research Institute (Asian Infrastructures) at the National Univ
This is the final call for applications – the deadline is 30 September. The successful applicant is expected to commence duties at NUS in...
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Sep 27, 20221 min read
2022/04/26 – |Leigh Johnson| The Ironies of Disaster Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing for African States amidst Covid-19 and a Changing Climate
Amidst budget distress and fiscal austerity, African states face perennial barriers to accessing post-disaster public finance for...
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Apr 12, 20222 min read
2022/08/06 Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?
We’re organizing a workshop on ‘Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?’ at the Development Studies...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read
Global financial professionals and the China Investment Corporation: Handmaidens to the global expan
The stock of Chinese foreign direct investment into the advanced capitalist economies has grown exponentially in the past decades,...
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Dec 17, 20213 min read
2021/11/15 – Radha Upadhyaya “Employing Capital: Patient Capital and Labour Relations in Kenya's Manufacturing Sector
Register for free here Generating decent employment plays a key role in the creation of a new social contract and social cohesion in...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securi
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
2021/05/18 – Yanpeng Jiang “The financialization of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and development companies
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The financialisation of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and...
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Apr 20, 20213 min read
21/04/2021 The ‘Strong Leader’ Trap: The Unintended Consequence of China’s Global Investment Strategy
21 April 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm (Singapore Standard Time). Register via Zoom : https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-vrToqGNw...
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Mar 26, 20211 min read
2021/03/30 – Raquel Rolnik: Post 2008 financialized housing geographies: from above, from below
On the 30th March 2021, 13h-14h BST , Raquel Rolnik (University of Sao Paulo) will present to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series....
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
2021/03/16 – Vincent Guermond: Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of M
On the 16th March 2021, Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway) presented to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. His talk was entitled :...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
2021/02/02 – Shaina Potts (UCLA, USA): Debt in the time of Covid
On the 2nd Feb 2021 Dr. Shaina Potts of UCLA presented the first ever FINGEO virtual seminar, entitled “Debt in the time of Covid”, the...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
Economic Development and Variegated Financialization in Emerging Economies (by Ewa Karwowski )
– Ewa Karwowski – Some academics and economic commentators have argued that we are living in an age of ‘de-globalisation’ . Given a...
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Oct 22, 20192 min read
2019/11/26-28: Financialization and Development in the Global South, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Call for papers: Financialization and Development in the Global South Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 26 to 28 November 2019...
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Jul 9, 20194 min read
2019/09/15 – Beijing, China – First Global FinGeo Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS 1st FinGeo Global Conference 2019 Global Financial Shift? Mapping a Financialized World in Transformation Beijing Normal...
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Dec 18, 20183 min read
Does spatial concentration of the Russian banking sector hinder lending to peripheral regions and SM
– Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura – For Russia, the geographical unevenness in the financial development is obvious. There are marked...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
Philanthro-capitalism, social enterprises, and global development
– Dennis Stolz and Karen P.Y. Lai – While the 2008 global financial crisis created financial meltdown as well as socio-economic crisis of...
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Mar 28, 20182 min read
The geographies of financial activities within an emerging international financial center: the case
– Fenghua Pan, Sarah Hall, Hua Zhang – Despite Beijing being the well-known political center of China, its reputation as an international...
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Jan 14, 20181 min read
The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanization
– Thierry Theurillat, James H. Lenzer Jr. & Hongyu Zhan – Mainland China is well known for its massive and rampant urban development,...
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Jul 7, 20172 min read
2017/09/04 – 2017/09/06 – Brussels, Belgium – The 3rd FinGeo Global Seminar “Financial geographies of Europe”
The 3rd FinGeo Global Seminar was organised as part of EUGEO’s 6th Congress on the Geography of Europe in Brussels on 4-6 September 2017....
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Mar 27, 20171 min read
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