This article discusses the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on microfinance borrowers in
Tamil Nadu, India. Through an examination of the social and financial infrastructures …

Housing has long been the quintessential rentier asset. But under financialized capitalism its
enrolment into accumulation dynamics has greatly intensified. As investors increasingly turn …

This paper makes a three-fold contribution to social science research into FinTech in Africa.
First, we build on existing research into mobile payments to show how FinTech providers …

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 …

This article engages with a global migration-development agenda that aims to harness the
development potential of remittances by incorporating remittance flows and households into …

Remittances are increasingly central to development discourses in Africa. The development
sector seeks to leverage transnational migration and rapid innovations in financial …

The management of remittances represents a multi-billion industry that is concerned with
how these flows can be tapped into by a wide range of institutional, state and private sector …

Drawing from capital mobility theory, this article adopts an encompassing view on remittance
that covers both domestic and international financial transfers, to retrospectively explore and …

This article traces experiments aimed at promoting wider adoption of 'microinsurance'–small,
simplified insurance policies targeting the poorest. Microinsurance is a central element of a …

Famine is not on the global justice theory agenda. Two plausible reasons explain why. First,
that global justice theory has moved toward a concern with international justice and …