FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction
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非洲金融科技:社论简介
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Daivi Rodima‐Taylor
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作者:
P. Langley;Daivi Rodima‐Taylor
ABSTRACT Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over the last decade or so, constituting novel ‘FinTech’ economies. Although FinTech is registering across critical social scientific research, insufficient dedicated attention has been paid to FinTech in Africa. Bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines and fields, this special issue of eight papers asks what is different about the forms that FinTech is taking in Africa, and considers how foregrounding developments on the continent might reshape social science research agendas and political conversations around FinTech globally. In this Introduction, we show how the papers make three main conceptual and analytical moves to attune research to the distinctive features of FinTech in Africa, thereby shifting the focus for research (1) from global financial inclusion agendas to colonial histories and presents, (2) from economic formalization to multiple modes of economization, and, (3) from techno-economic ecosystems to statecraft and international security.
DOI:
10.1177/0308518x19887967
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
Economy and Space
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作者:
Hendrikse R
通讯作者:
Hendrikse R