Nick Bernards
University of Warwick
27 Papers
38 Citations
Nick Bernards is an academic researcher from University of Warwick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Financial inclusion & Global governance. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 24 publications. Previous affiliations of Nick Bernards include Queen's University & McMaster University.
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Papers
Understanding Technological Change in Global Finance through Infrastructures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that tracing the ways in which infrastructures enabling financial markets to operate are assembled out of multiple old and new socio-technical devices offers productive avenues for addressing key questions arising from several entanglements underpinning technological change.
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‘Fintech’ and Financial Inclusion
Nick Bernards
- 01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the intersection of key recent debates about financial markets in the Global South: the implications of technological change and efforts to promote financial inclusion, and reflect on the limits of fintech as tools for poverty reduction.
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‘Latent’ surplus populations and colonial histories of drought, groundnuts, and finance in Senegal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on Marx's concept of "latent" surplus populations to trace out and explain parallels between IBAI and colonial interventions in Senegal's groundnut basin.
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Poverty finance and the durable contradictions of colonial capitalism: Placing ‘financial inclusion’ in the long run in Ghana
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of conflicts in Ghana over the provision of credit to cocoa farmers, from roughly 1930-60, drawing on original archival research, are mapped out, showing how these contradictions are echoed in contemporary financial inclusion initiatives and responses to climate vulnerability in Ghana.
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