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This book presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigates the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy for gender equality. Using South Africa's women entrepreneurs as a central case, the book interrogates the logic and politics of financial inclusion and gender equality globally and locally. It also examines conditions that explain financial inclusion and women's empowerment concerning women-owned businesses in post-apartheid South Africa. Finally, it presents a debate on the socio-economic factors enabling and limiting women's access to and using financial products to improve their socio-economic empowerment and the future suggestions, policies and recommendations on financial inclusion for women entrepreneurs in South Africa.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Story of Inclusion, Development, Economy and Women in South Africa.- Chapter 3: Theorising Feminist Political Economy Analysis.- Chapter 4: Gendered Narratives on Financial Inclusion: Global and Continental Context.- Chapter 5: South African Context of Financial Inclusion and Exclusion: Evolution and Lessons.- Chapter 6: South African Government and Digital Financial Inclusion.- Chapter 7: Impact of Financial Inclusion on Women's Empowerment in South Africa: Perspectives and Lessons.
About the author
Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo is the Head of Pan African Women Studies Unit and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Pan African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg.
