The FinTech ecosystem in Ghana provided the basis for understanding how various actors work together to shape financial inclusion.
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South Africa has a huge gender gap in terms of policies and interventions that would help women entrepreneurs.
It’s time to shift focus away from bitcoin and to pay more attention to other blockchain projects promising to make real contributions to the world.
Banks can deploy artificial intelligence to create an understanding of current and prospective consumers and develop products that meet their needs.
An attempt to prevent fraud in Ghana’s burgeoning mobile money sector could be a setback for access to financial services.
Sustainable financial inclusion in Nigeria requires interventions that strengthen financial capability, participation and well-being of small-scale farmers.
Stringent restrictions could stifle innovation among mobile money operators and hinder access to financial services.
More financial services should target low-income households in South Africa.
Nigeria needs to adopt gender specific strategies to financially include women smallholders in agriculture.
Mobile loan platforms have given Kenyans access to easy loans, but they come at a high price.
The closure of high street pawnbrokers like Albermarle and Bond might leave many without financial help.
Mobile money transfers have become the norm in Somalia. Transactions total as much as $2.7bn a month.
Mobile money transfers have been a great asset. But the rise of online betting could threaten its contribution.
Plans for China to rate its citizens for their trustworthiness have been depicted as uniquely Chinese. Don’t be so sure.
Grameen Bank has potential to increase financial inclusion in Australia but regulation is holding it back.
Banking in a highly financialised society like Britain could be seen as akin to a fundamental human right.
Entities at the centre of the storm engulfing South Africa’s social grants distribution system have claimed to be champions of financial inclusion. The claim in itself is scandalous.
The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
The global push for financial inclusion could end up with unintended consequences.
In the global South, where some argue that “everyone is now middle class”, people are reluctant to acknowledge that they need to borrow money – and the stigma drives them to dodge their debts.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, One Earth Future Foundation
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Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor in FinTech & Information Systems, University of Southampton
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PhD candidate, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Law, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Education and Development Coordinator, Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate in Financial Inclusion, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology and Anthropology; Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies; Executive Committee Member of the ANU Gender Institute, Australian National University
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Principal Lecturer, Law, University of Portsmouth
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
