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Kenya’s mobile money revolution
Mobile-phone-based, person-to-person payment and money transfer systems are innovative—but are they really good for poverty reduction and development?
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Maren Duvendack is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Development Economics at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia.
Mobile-phone-based, person-to-person payment and money transfer systems are innovative—but are they really good for poverty reduction and development?