FLORENCE DAFE

Research In Progress


  • Digital empowerment: Banks and the rise of FinTechs in Kenya and Nigeria (revise and resubmit, with R. Upadhyaya)
  • Mobile capital: The politics of taxing digital financial services in Kenya and Ghana (revise and resubmit, with M. Hearson and M. Abounabhan)
  • The infrastructural power of large tech companies and its disruptive consequences (revise and resubmit, with E. Conceiçao-Heldt)
  • International finance and the politics of digital sovereignty in Africa (book project)
  • Growth models, financial subordination and growth coalitions in Brazil and Nigeria (with B. Bonizzi, A. Kaltenbrunner and P. Loureiro)
  • International financial hierarchies and the porous boundaries between industrial policy and economic statecraft (with L. Rethel)