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Natile, Serena (2020) The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion : mobile money, gendered walls. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy . London: Routledge . ISBN 9780367179588
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367179618
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.
| Item Type: | Book | ||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration J Political Science > JX International law J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
| Series Name: | RIPE Series in Global Political Economy | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780367179588 | ||||
| Official Date: | 5 February 2020 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 180 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780367179618 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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