Financial Inclusion

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- 1 Introduction -- Structure of the book -- 2 What is financial inclusion? -- Defining financial inclusion -- Key distinctions -- Exclusion versus inclusion -- Global South and Global North -- Concept, intervention and assemblage -- Key players -- Accion -- The Alliance for Financial Inclusion -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- The Grameen Bank -- The World Bank -- Key questions -- 3 Financial inclusion as a tool of poverty eradication: the case of microcredit -- From microcredit to microfinance -- The microcredit model -- Microfinance in Bangladesh -- Microfinance in India -- The commercial turn -- The lived experience of microcredit -- The fall of microcredit -- Conclusion -- 4 Financial inclusion as the production of new markets: the case of reverse redlining -- Redlining -- Reverse redlining -- The feminization of finance -- Conclusion -- 5 Financial inclusion as financial subjectivity: the case of financial capability in the UK -- Financial exclusion: geographies of inequality -- Discovering financial inclusion: a "Third Way" in poverty alleviation -- Financial subjectivity and asset-based welfare -- Financial literacy and capability -- Financial capability in the era of austerity -- Conclusion: dynamics of inclusion, risk and practice - financial inclusion as a new form of exclusion? -- 6 Financial inclusion as political project: the case of conditional cash transfers -- Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera -- CCTs and financial inclusion -- Financial nudges -- Financial inclusion through contractual governance -- Conclusion: achieving financial inclusion by other means -- 7 Financial inclusion as transformations in financial practice: the case of mobile money -- Mobile money: overview -- M-PESA -- Mobile money and airtime gifting.