{"product_id":"exclusionary-politics-of-digital-financial-inclusion","title":"Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in Global Political Economy, Socio-Legal Studies, Gender Studies, Law \u0026amp; Development, Finance and International Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226426724696,"sku":"9780367179588","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367179588_e175b608-c2bc-44cb-9cc4-4f870e222a3c.jpg?v=1769577315","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/exclusionary-politics-of-digital-financial-inclusion","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}