... and document analysis with critical perspectives from international business, international political economy and political science. It synthesises three viewpoints on EU sustainability rollback, neoliberal capitalism and the politicisation of business and human rights. Findings Recent political shifts...

...Farzad Haider Alvi Purpose This paper examines social impact investing (SII), a growing source of investment from the Global North to the Global South celebrated as a new way of doing good in low-income countries, but bearing elements of neoliberalism that can reify post-colonial contexts...

... as an ideology, a strong discourse, a Utopian project, a policy package and a naturally occurring phenomenon (Bourdieu, 1998 ; Chomsky, 1999 ; Harvey, 2005 , Rachleff, 2006 ; Steger and Roy, 2010), neoliberalism is characterized by processes such as the privatization and deregulation of publicly held...