Finthropology is pleased to launch a new report, Digital Change in Smallholder Farming in the Philippines: Emerging Practices in E-Commerce and Finance.  The report explores the practices emerging from the introduction of e-commerce and digital financial tools in the area of Lucban, southeast of Manila.

Central banks around the world are increasingly looking to develop Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as the use of cash dwindles and people turn to third party providers of payments and new forms of money. But why would people use them?

Finthropology is pleased to announce that we have been engaged ACIAR to conduct a market scan of mobile finance and market facilitation services in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, East Timor and Indonesia.

On social media cryptocurrency is often associated with images of wealth and sex. Why would young people want to consume this kind of content? Why are they attracted to the crypto-hustle? Dr. Alexia Maddox explores how a combination of precarity and the lure of power shape money culture around young people.