Philip Mader - Research Fellow
Business, Markets and the State
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+44 (0)1273 915646
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p.mader@ids.ac.uk
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Erin Lewis
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Philip Mader is a research fellow in the Business, Markets and the State research cluster, and has over 8 years' research and consulting experience in the field of international development. His research areas include political economy, finance and development, youth employment, management of public goods, financialisation, financial inclusion and financial literacy, and private governance and standards.
His prior research, which focused on microfinance and its connections with poverty and financial markets, was awarded two major PhD prizes. He has research and consulting experience in India and for UK funders, and has been invited to speak at academic and practitioner events on several continents.
Philip is the co-convenor of the MA Globalisation, Business and Development at IDS and, since 2016, he has convened the module ‘Business as a Development Actor’.
He previously taught sociology, political economy and theory of knowledge at IDS and the Universities of Cologne and Basel.
Student surgeries: 16:00-17:00 on Wednesdays during term time; please e-mail for an appointment.
International talks and lectures
- Microfinance: Problems, Critiques, Solutions - given at Monash University, 09 November 2017
The Political Economy of Microfinance - Financializing Poverty
This book helps to understand the enigmatic microfinance sector by tracing its evolution and asking how it works as a financial system. More details
Card Crusaders, Cash Infidels and the Holy Grails of Digital Financial Inclusion
Behemoth: A Journal on Civilisation 9.2 (2016)This paper analyses the turn toward financial inclusion in general, and toward digital money and the end of cash in particular, in development policy. It examines the profit-oriented logics at work and raises critical questions about the moral crusade being waged over digitalising poor people’s money. More details
Failing Young People? Addressing the Supply-side Bias and Individualisation in Youth Employment Programming
IDS Evidence Report 216 (2017)International development actors increasingly focus on youth employment as a key development challenge. More details
State–Business Relations Beyond Growth: Bringing in Development
IDS Evidence Report 215 (2016)The signatories of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have called on a wide range of businesses ‘to apply their creativity and innovation’ to address sustainable development challenges. Yet the role of business in contributing to development depends profoundly on its interaction with the state. This paper asks how states and businesses interact in different contexts to shape development outcomes. More details
How Do State–Business Relations Shape Sustainable Development?
IDS Policy Briefing 141 (2017)The achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals will depend on the ways in which states and businesses engage with one another. While state–business interactions can take many forms, they inherently involve processes of negotiation through which actors in both camps pursue their own interests. More details
Africa’s youth employment challenge: what’s youth got to do with it?
09 Jul 2018By Stephen Hunt, Stacie Irwin, Philip Mader
Decent work for all? We need to talk about rural informal employment!
28 Sep 2017By Jim Sumberg, Philip Mader, Justin Flynn
Africa’s structural challenges can’t be solved by “youth innovation”
17 Jun 2016By Jim Sumberg, Philip Mader, Justin Flynn
Mentions in the media
Is microcredit a debt trap?
11 Aug 2017World Bank: Private capital needs to be created
29 Jun 2017War on cash | Business Recorder
17 Feb 2017The Dirty Little Secret of an African Beacon
22 Jul 2016A guide to financial inclusion in fragile states
13 Nov 2015
Thematic Expertise:
Economy and Finance; Microfinance.