Introduction

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction Money and Finance at the Margins 1
6. Part I. In/Exclusion The Question of Inclusion
7. Introduction 19
8. Chapter 1. A Living Fence: Financial Inclusion and Exclusion on the Haiti–Dominican Republic Border 23
9. Chapter 2. Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya 44
10. Chapter 3. The Use of Mobile-Money Technology among Vulnerable Populations in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for Poverty Reduction 66
11. Part II Value and Wealth What do Value and Wealth Do? “Life” Goes On, Whatever “Life” Is
12. Introduction 87
13. Chapter 4. Dhukuti Economies: The Moral and Social Ecologies of Rotating Finance in the Kathmandu Valley 91
14. Chapter 5. Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist “Conversions” in Cuba’s Dual Economy 108
15. Chapter 6. Carola and Saraswathi: Juggling Wealth in India and in Mexico 128
16. Part III. Technology and Social Relations Infrastructures of Digital Money
17. Introduction 151
18. Chapter 7. “Financial Inclusion Means Your Money Isn’t with You”: Conflicts over Social Grants and Financial Services in South Africa 155
19. Chapter 8. Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya 179
20. Chapter 9. Accounting in the Margin: Financial Ecologies in between Big and Small Data 200
21. Part IV Design and Practice
22. Introduction 221
23. Chapter 10. Understanding Social Relations and Payments among Rural Ethiopians 225
24. 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 247
25. Chapter 12. Effects of Mobile Banking on the Savings Practices of Low-Income Users: The Indian Experience 266
26. Chapter 13. Betting on Chance in Colombia: Using Empirical Evidence on Game Networks to Develop Practical Design Guidelines 287
27. Afterword Monetary Ingenuity: Drink It In 305
28. Index 310