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Title Money at the margins : global perspectives on technology, financial inclusion & design / edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small
Published New York : Berghahn, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations
Series The human economy ; volume 6
Human economy ; v. 6.
Contents Money at the Margins; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins; Part I -- In/Exclusion: The Question of Inclusion; Chapter 1 -- A Living Fence: Financial Inclusion and Exclusion on the Haiti-Dominican Republic Border; Chapter 2 -- Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya; Chapter 3 -- The Use of Mobile-Money Technology among Vulnerable Populations in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for Poverty Reduction; Part II -- Value and Wealth: What do Value and Wealth Do? ""Life Goes On, Whatever ""Life"" Is
Chapter 4 -- Dhukuti Economies: The Moral and Social Ecologies of Rotating Finance in the Kathmandu ValleyChapter 5 -- Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist ""Conversions"" in Cuba's Dual Economy; Chapter 6 -- Carola and Saraswathi: Juggling Wealth in India and in Mexico; Part III -- Technology and Social Relations: Infrastructures of Digital Money; Chapter 7 -- ""Financial Inclusion Means Your Money Isn't with You"": Conflicts over Social Grants and Financial Services in South Africa; Chapter 8 -- Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya
Chapter 9 -- Accounting in the Margin: Financial Ecologies in between Big and Small DataPart IV -- Design and Practice; Chapter 10 -- Understanding Social Relations and Payments among Rural Ethiopians; Chapter 11 -- Delivering Cash Grants to Indigenous Peoples through Cash Cards versus Over-the-Counter Modalities: The Case of the 4Ps Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Palawan, Philippines; Chapter 12 -- Effects of Mobile Banking on the Savings Practices of Low-Income Users: The Indian Experience
Chapter 13 -- Betting on Chance in Colombia: Using Empirical Evidence on Game Networks to Develop Practical Design GuidelinesAfterword -- Monetary Ingenuity: Drink It In; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Finance -- Developing countries
Money -- Technological innovations -- Developing countries
Poor -- Developing countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Finance
Poor
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Maurer, Bill, 1968- editor.
Musaraj, Smoki, editor
Small, Ivan Victor, 1972- editor.
LC no. 2017054657
ISBN 9781785336546
1785336541