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Tracing mutations in neoliberal development governance : "fintech", failure, and the politics of marketization

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Bernards, Nick (2019) Tracing mutations in neoliberal development governance : "fintech", failure, and the politics of marketization. Environment and Planning A : Economy and Space, 51 (7). pp. 1442-1459. doi:10.1177/0308518X19862576

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Abstract

This article interrogates recent policy pronouncements around the promotion of emerging financial technologies (fintech) as means of enabling financial inclusion. It is argued that situating this emergent ‘turn to technology’ in the context of a longer-running pattern of failed efforts to promote the development of financial markets for the poor in the Global South offers us a useful lens on the dynamics of neoliberalism. The article develops this analysis by drawing together interlinked discussions of ‘neoliberal reason’, highlighting the central role played by the diffusion of market institutions in neoliberal projects with Marxian discussions highlighting the crucial underlying role of labour in enabling the operation of markets. In this context the appeal to ever-more fine-grained information with which to allocate credit underlying the turn to technology can both be read as yet another attempt to ‘re-engineer’ the market, and also seen as a doomed project. Empirically, this argument is fleshed out through an engagement with key framework documents around financial inclusion and technology from the World Bank and G20.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies
Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Finance, Financial institutions -- Effect of technological innovations on, Financial services industry -- Effect of technological innovations on, Microfinance
Journal or Publication Title: Environment and Planning A : Economy and Space
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0308-518X
Official Date: 1 October 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
1 October 2019Published
7 July 2019Available
16 June 2019Accepted
Volume: 51
Number: 7
Page Range: pp. 1442-1459
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X19862576
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Publisher Statement: Bernards, Nick (2019) Tracing mutations in neoliberal development governance : "fintech", failure, and the politics of marketization. Environment and Planning A : Economy and Space . Copyright © 2019 The Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X19862576
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