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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Milford Bateman
Milford Bateman is a Visiting Professor of Economics at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, in Croatia and an Adjunct Professor of Development Studies at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada.
The problem with microcredit in Africa
The microcredit industry is not a driver of development and poverty reduction, but quite the opposite: it is an “anti-developmental” intervention.