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dc.contributor.author | Natile, S | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-13T14:00:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-10 | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-13T14:00:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 2020, 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780367179588 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/20830 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.routledge.com/authors/i19508-serena-natile | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_US |
dc.subject | area studies | en_US |
dc.subject | development studies | en_US |
dc.subject | environment | en_US |
dc.subject | social work | en_US |
dc.subject | urban studies | en_US |
dc.title | The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367179618 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | RIPE Series in Global Political Economy | - |
pubs.edition | 1 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
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