IMTFI Fellow Oludayo Tade, Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, shares his research published in Protest In the first week of February 2023, videos of two people who stripped naked in some banking halls located in Southern Nigeria went viral.
Cross-posted from APRI, Africa Policy Research Institute’s The Africa Hour, a monthly podcast Synopsis Cash is still king in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, despite a decades-long push by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to switch to alternative modes of
By Sunniva Sandbukt (Assistant Professor at the IT-University of Copenhagen)This blogpost draws on fieldwork conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2018 and 2019 for the author’s PhD. Enter E-MoneyThe use of “e-money” in Indonesia began in 2007. In 2009, uang elektronik
By Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo (Northumbria University and Universidad Anahuac) and Ignacio González Correa (University of California, Davis) In our project, we looked at family remittances between the United States and Mexico, the third-largest remittance corridor worldwide by volume, after China and
By Caroline Mangowal (PhD, Founder of RISE Indonesia) RISE conducted a small-scale qualitative research project in Greater Jakarta in May 2022 to explore emerging payment systems and financial inclusion (contrasting cash and digital dependency and the entanglement between the two,
By Agus Indiyanto (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) For Vera, 23, a culinary entrepreneur, digital payment options are a necessity, as they are for most Indonesians. These payment instruments provide answers to present-day demands that everything be done easily, practically, and
By Debashis Acharya (School of Economics, University of Hyderabad) and Alok Kumar Pandey (Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, announced the pilot launch of the Digital Rupee (e₹), a central bank
