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Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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. Households without phones or internet access are more likely to be poor, female-headed, have less education, and rely more on …
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other regions holds in West Africa. It used data from World Development Indicators for the period 2004 to 2014, which was … statistically insignificant effect on inclusive growth in West Africa which refutes the positive and significant role of mobile …
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The use of mobile phones in poverty reduction and development has ignited much interest over the past decade. To take advantage of the rapid expansion of mobile phones in developing countries, businesses, government agencies and non-governmental organisations are increasingly turning their...
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multi-purpose device, including camera, music player, games, and even small computer. The development of internet features … in mobile phones has also continuously and extensively changed from providing only limited internet browsing in the early … 2000s to watching high quality video on demand nowadays. The speed of internet is also significantly increased since the …
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This paper examines the joint effects of mobile phone technology, knowledge creation and diffusion on inclusive human development in 49 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions for the period 2000-2012. The net effects of interactions between the...
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mobile money innovations in Africa. To make this assessment, a comparative analysis is engaged between sampled African …, not all factors driving mobile money innovations in Africa are apparent in the findings of Lashitew et al. (2019). An …
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