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ArticleFinance and space2025

African experiments in infrastructure financialisation: an urbanisation of debt in Malawi.

Matthew Lane, Evance Mwathunga, Jennifer Robinson

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Matthew LaneSchool of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8404-506X
Evance MwathungaDepartment of Geography, Earth Sciences and Environment, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8126-9906
Jennifer RobinsonDepartment of Geography, University College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7716-4770

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diverging from accounts that portray financialisation in the Global South as 'subordinate' to that experienced in the north, in this paper we examine the recent financing and delivery of urban infrastructure projects in Malawi using bonds sold on the domestic market. We do so to make two contributions to the geographical literature on financialisation. Firstly, to reveal how (contrary to accounts in the recent international development literature) non-revenue generating urban infrastructure debt

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asset geographieseconomic sovereigntyF35financializationG12MalawiP10R21statecraftUrban

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PMCPMC12333128

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