Series: Business, Finance and International Development

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. A new trend in ethical finance, impact investing aims to generate positive social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns. But what does it really mean, and how is it practised across different regions and organisations? This volume explores the malleability of impact investing and how it overlaps with the development sphere to give...

What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to pursue state objectives? In this edited volume, leading scholars explore these questions, focusing on state–finance interactions globally. The book combines literatures on international financial subordination, financial statecraft, and comparative capitalism to...