The role of digital financial infrastructure for the NIEO in sub-Saharan Africa

Janet Roitman, David Mhlanga and Joshua Matanzima

Development in Practice, 2025, vol. 35, issue 6, 985-990

Abstract: This article analyses how emerging digital financial infrastructures potentially contribute to the principles of the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Specifically, it considers how digital financial technologies (fintech) drive economic transformation, potentially empowering Sub-Saharan nation-states to better manage the structural challenges of their economic environments. Our view is that, while financial technologies are oft-maligned as private market-based ventures that escape state regulation, they nonetheless have the potential to promote financial inclusion and enhance financial sovereignty, thus contributing to national development strategies and the goals of the NIEO.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2025.2451896

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