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Hawala Tech and Banks in Somalia
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The Kenyan Mobile Money Ecosystem
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Infographic: Mobile Phones in Uganda 2011
The iHub Research team has been at work pulling together the mobile phone stats for Uganda and putting it into an infographic . It’s good to see the 41% density of mobile phones and impressive numbers...
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View ArticleInnovation by Users in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Mobile Banking…
Author: van der Boor, Paul, Pedro Oliveira, Francisco Veloso Publication Type: Report/White paper Publication Date: Feb 2012 Publication language: English Abstract: This paper examines the extent to...
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Mobile Money Infographic for Kenya (2013)
The GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked unit has just released a new infographic on the history and metrics for Kenya’s mobile money giant Mpesa, from Safaricom. It’s an extensive and incredible chart....
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Courtney Martin has an interesting post at the Development Set about the “reductive seduction” of other people’s problems. Problems we know something about (gun control in America as her example for...
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Mobile money has done more to extend the reach of financial services in the last decade than traditional “bricks and mortar” banking has in the last century. This week, GSMA released the 2015 State of...
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