Why Microfinance Failed in The Global South

We speak with Ahilan Kadirgamar about microfinance. Ahilan Kadirgamar is a member of the Collective for Economic Democratisation. He is also Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).

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On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco

We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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