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Kevin P. Donovan is Senior Lecturer at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and author of Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa.
How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.
Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke. More than higher wages and better job security, a just economy requires giving them the power to choose and create their own futures.
Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.
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