Money at the margins : global perspectives on technology, financial inclusion & design / edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small.

Other author Maurer, Bill, 1968- editor.
Other author Musaraj, Smoki editor.
Other author Small, Ivan Victor, 1972- editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Berghahn, [2018]
Description1 online resource (xi, 321 pages).
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SeriesThe human economy ; volume 6
Human economy ; v. 6. ^A1343962
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.
Contents Chapter 4 -- Dhukuti Economies: The Moral and Social Ecologies of Rotating Finance in the Kathmandu Valley; Chapter 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.
Contents Chapter 9 -- Accounting in the Margin: Financial Ecologies in between Big and Small Data; Part 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.
Contents Chapter 13 -- Betting on Chance in Colombia: Using Empirical Evidence on Game Networks to Develop Practical Design Guidelines; Afterword -- Monetary Ingenuity: Drink It In; Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2018).
Issued in other formPrint version: Money at the margins. New York : Berghahn Books, [2018] 9781785336539
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017054657
ISBN9781785336546 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1785336541 (electronic bk.)
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