ERIN TORKELSON

  • About
  • Research
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Context
    • Teaching Praxis
    • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Impact
    • Net1's Payment System
    • The Postal Payment System & Debt
    • Universal Basic Income & Covid-19
    • Digital Welfare Profiteers
    • Global Financial Inclusion
    • Land & Housing Redistribution
  • Leadership
  • Awards
  • Talks
  • Contact
  • About
  • Research
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Context
    • Teaching Praxis
    • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Impact
    • Net1's Payment System
    • The Postal Payment System & Debt
    • Universal Basic Income & Covid-19
    • Digital Welfare Profiteers
    • Global Financial Inclusion
    • Land & Housing Redistribution
  • Leadership
  • Awards
  • Talks
  • Contact
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Current Project

Global Financial Inclusion

I have been working with scholars from South Africa, Brazil, the UK and Europe to write about predatory financial inclusion in popular media. We are investigating the way financial inclusion is traveling globally and dominating the so-called "poverty alleviation" agendas of multilateral institutions, including the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Group of Twenty, and private philanthropies.
PATHWAYS TO IMPACT:
  • We hope to raise awareness about how the discourses of financial inclusion are shaping development projects worldwide.
FUTURE IMPACT:
  • We hope to end the popularity of development programs that link social entitlements to credit and debt.

MEDIA CAMPAIGN

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Photo: Oupa Mokoena

Grant Distribution Failures Foil Financial Inclusion

Read: My article with Milford Bateman, Patrick Bond, and Lena Lavinas Grant Distribution Failures Foil so-called "Financial Inclusion" in the Independent Online ​on 23 September 2023.
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Photo: Z Magazine

WB President promotes financial inclusion

Read: My article with Milford Bateman, Patrick Bond, and Lena Lavinas Incoming World Bank President Ajay Banga Promotes Predatory Financial Inclusion in the CFTAD on 12 April 2023. 
​​Translated: FRENCH, SPANISH & PORTUGUESE 
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Photo: IFC

Banga's predatory finance background 

Read: My article with Milford Bateman, Patrick Bond, and Lena Lavinas Banga's Predatory Finance Background Threatens More Prolific World Bank Poverty Creation in Counterpunch on 14 April 2023.
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Photo: Interpress Service

Debt-Pushing Financial INclusion

Read: Jomo Kwame Sundaram's article Debt-pushing Financial Inclusion in Interpress Service ​on 4 October 2023.
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Photo: Creative Commons

Prolific world bank
​poverty creation

Read: My article with Milford Bateman, Patrick Bond, and Lena Lavinas President Banga's Predatory Finance Background Threatens More Prolific WB Poverty Creation in Z Net on 13 April 2023.
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Photo: AP/Lewis Jolly; Graphic: TruthDig

Can WB's new CEO change toxic Lending Practices

Read: Jared Olsen's article Can the World Bank's New CEO Change their Toxic Lending Practices in Truth Dig ​on the 6 September 2023.
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