Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change: The Impact of Social Finance on the World's Poor

by Gayle Peterson, Ellen JK, Robert Yawson

Book Overview

The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly evolving. This book examines why large financial players are entering the social sector through social finance. Drawing on empirical research, the authors analyse the opportunities this new interest and commitment presents as well as the potential harm that can be done to vulnerable people when beneficiaries are not treated as partners and the social needs of people are not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303040711X
• ISBN13: 9783030407117
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"