Julio Galindo Gutiérrez

Research

Title of Research:

Aligning private investment and development outcomes: The challenge of 'greening' the Finance for Development agenda

Brief overview of research topic:

My project will critically examine the World Bank’s Maximizing Finance for Development strategy. This new agenda furthers a “post-aid” paradigm for development in which global finance and asset manager capitalism is playing a central role by aiming to create investable opportunities in the global south that can attract the trillions of dollars from the global financial markets needed to bridge the gap between the estimated cost of a green transition in developing economies and the current amount of development assistance.

I am interested in examining what factors have conditioned these types of programs for financing sustainable development and how this idea of a “best practice” regarding the alignment of private financial interests and the wider public interest has been disseminated.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

MA –International Political Economy, University of Warwick (Distinction)

BA – Philosophy, Universidad Panamericana (cum laude)