Banking For A Better World: Nanno Kleiterp In Conversation With Marijn Wiersma
by Nanno Kleiterp /
2017 / English / PDF
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When we look at all the challenges facing the world, including
inequality, population migration, and climate change, we can see
a role for development banking in nearly all of them. But will
that role be played for good or ill? This book brings together
two people, Nanno Kleiterp, former executive director of the
Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), and Marijn
Wiersma, senior financial inclusion officer at FMO, who
collectively draw on their forty-five years in that world to
argue that development banking can—and must—play a constructive
role.
When we look at all the challenges facing the world, including
inequality, population migration, and climate change, we can see
a role for development banking in nearly all of them. But will
that role be played for good or ill? This book brings together
two people, Nanno Kleiterp, former executive director of the
Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), and Marijn
Wiersma, senior financial inclusion officer at FMO, who
collectively draw on their forty-five years in that world to
argue that development banking can—and must—play a constructive
role.
We only need to read the news to find public outrage at tales of
short-sighted greed in the financial world. But what happens when
banks invest in long-term sustainability? Readers will find a
fascinating example in the journey of FMO. At times global in
perspective, at other moments intimately personal,
We only need to read the news to find public outrage at tales of
short-sighted greed in the financial world. But what happens when
banks invest in long-term sustainability? Readers will find a
fascinating example in the journey of FMO. At times global in
perspective, at other moments intimately personal,Banking for
a Better World
Banking for
a Better World weaves candid anecdotes with development
history, as well as banking lessons with client interviews, to
deliver a powerful argument for a business model that generates
profit through impact, and impact through profit.
weaves candid anecdotes with development
history, as well as banking lessons with client interviews, to
deliver a powerful argument for a business model that generates
profit through impact, and impact through profit.
This is an important and accessible must-read for anyone involved
in banking, business, policy making, and civil society as a
whole.
This is an important and accessible must-read for anyone involved
in banking, business, policy making, and civil society as a
whole.Banking for a Better World
Banking for a Better World challenges us to start
finding overlaps in our own lives and bridge the distance between
our personal benefits and the benefits to our planet.
challenges us to start
finding overlaps in our own lives and bridge the distance between
our personal benefits and the benefits to our planet.
