Mobile money
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Mobile Money: Issue 2
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Empowering women through digital financial services
Increasing women’s use of a digital financial service in Tanzania, mobile money, empowered women and led to improvements in women’s control over their finances.
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Reducing misconduct in Ghana’s mobile money markets benefitted all
Information is power: a low-cost transparency programme reduced vendor misconduct and increased market efficiency in Ghana’s mobile money market.
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Mobile money markets and financial inclusion in Africa
How did adopting platform "interoperability" - a policy that promotes transactions and competition across operators - impact mobile money users in Africa?
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The impact of multiple savings accounts on microentrepreneurs in Malawi
Improving access to saving tools helps urban Malawian microentrepreneurs save and adjust labour supply decisions
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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households: Evidence from Uganda
Mobile money agents need additional support to transform lives in poor rural areas
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Increasing female enterprise growth through mobile money: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Disbursing microfinance loans through mobile money accounts empowers female entrepreneurs to resist pressure to share loans with others
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Learning to navigate a new financial technology: Evidence from Bangladesh
How do consumers learn to navigate a new financial technology? An experiment with workers from Bangladesh suggests that experience makes a difference
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Is mobile money changing the rural landscape? Evidence from Mozambique
The introduction of mobile money promoted migration out of rural areas by easing long-distance transfers and increasing resilience