The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls - Couverture rigide

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Natile, Serena

 
9780367179588: The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls
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ISBN 10 : 036717958X ISBN 13 : 9780367179588
Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Focusing on Kenya's path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects.

One of the most-discussed digital financial inclusion projects, M-Pesa facilitates the transfer of money and access to formal financial services via the mobile phone infrastructure and has grown at a phenomenal rate since its launch in 2007 to reach about 80 per cent of the Kenyan population. Through a socio-legal enquiry drawing on feminist political economy, law and development scholarship and postcolonial feminist debate, this book unravels the narratives and institutional arrangements that frame M-Pesa's success while interrogating the relationship between digital financial inclusion and gender equality in development discourse. Natile argues that M-Pesa is premised on and regulated according to a logic of opportunity rather than a politics of redistribution, favouring the expansion of the mobile money market in preference to contributing to substantive gender equality via a redistribution of the revenue and funding deriving from its development.

This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in Global Political Economy, Socio-Legal Studies, Gender Studies, Law & Development, Finance and International Relations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Serena Natile is Assistant Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, UK.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
036717958X
ISBN 13 
9780367179588
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
166
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Editeur : Routledge, 2021
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