The underside of microfinance: Performance indicators and informal debt in Cambodia

WN Green, T Chhom, R Mony… - Development and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microfinance is a dominant strategy used to promote rural development around the world.
Rather than directly track its impact on borrowers, however, microfinance institutions rely on …

Depleted by debt:“Green” microfinance, over‐indebtedness, and social reproduction in climate‐vulnerable Cambodia

V Guermond, D Iskander, S Michiels, K Brickell… - Antipode, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key
means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in …

Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation

L Johnson, M Mikulewicz, P Bigger… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
While adapting to the impacts of climate change will require massive human efforts across
landscapes, economies, and everyday social life, adaptation is rarely conceptualized as …

Duplicitous debtscapes: Unveiling social impact investment for microfinance

WN Green - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social impact investment for microfinance has become a dominant form of poverty regulation
in the global south. These investments aim to alleviate poverty by extending financial …

Securing tenure for conflict-affected populations: A case study of land titling and fit-for-purpose land administration in post-conflict Sri Lanka

BCR Flower, P Ganepola, S Popuri, J Turkstra - Land use policy, 2023 - Elsevier
This article assesses the efficacy of best-practice tenure reforms for conflict-affected
populations, using a case study of Sri Lanka's post-conflict Northern Province. In Sri Lanka …

[HTML][HTML] Slow violence, over-indebtedness, and the politics of (in) visibility: Stories and creative practices in pandemic times

K Brickell - Political Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper I share insights and thoughts on the 'doing'of creative practice for representing
and communicating lived experiences of slow violence. Reflecting on two UKRI GCRF …

[图书][B] Solar power finance without the jargon

J Chase - 2019 - World Scientific
One of the problems with economics and finance as sciences is that they tend to find a
relationship in the past and assume it will continue into the future. This works well until it …

Wakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies: Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia

K Brickell, D Iskander, L Parsons… - Annals of the American …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For a discipline so oriented around the study of wakeful geographies, the lack of direct
conceptual engagement with the notion of wakefulness—a cognitive state in which the mind …

Agricultural Transformation in the Rural Farmer Communities of Stung Chrey Bak, Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia

H Kimkong, B Promphakping, H Hudson, SCJ Day - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper examines the processes of agricultural transformation and their impacts within six
rice farming communities in Cambodia. For this, we explored four drivers of agricultural …

Land Titling and Microcredit in Cambodia: Examining the Reality of Hernando de Soto's 'Three Steps to Heaven'

M Bateman - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Starting with the work of Hernando de Soto in the 1980s, the role of land tenure soon
attracted the attention of the international development community as a neoliberal-oriented …