Improving the resilience of SMEs in times of crisis: The impact of mobile money amid Covid‐19 in Zambia
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DOI: 10.1002/jid.3596
Abstract: This study investigates the impact of mobile money (MM) on SMEs' resilience and the associated business outcome in developing countries amid Covid-19. Despite the potential of MM to improve SMEs' resilience, little evidence has been… read more here.
Keywords: impact mobile; zambia; improving resilience; amid covid ... See more keywords
The (non-)emergence of mobile money systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative multilevel perspective of Kenya and Nigeria
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.11.010
Abstract: Abstract Mobile money systems are radically transforming the lives of a large fraction of the Sub-Saharan population. The emblematic success story of M-Pesa of Kenyan telecommunications operator Safaricom has received wide acclaim for being both… read more here.
Keywords: money systems; money; sub saharan; mobile money ... See more keywords
Mobile money and healthcare use: Evidence from East Africa
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105392
Abstract: Abstract This paper uses a difference-in-difference framework to estimate the effects of mobile money transfer technology (MMT) on healthcare use in the face of negative health shocks. We use survey data from 2013 to 16… read more here.
Keywords: mobile money; evidence; healthcare use; money healthcare ... See more keywords
Mobile money adoption and households’ vulnerability to shocks: Evidence from Togo
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1659496
Abstract: ABSTRACT We investigate the determinants of mobile money adoption process and whether its use helps households in Togo to be resilient to predictable and unpredictable life events. Using ordered logit and sequential logit models, our… read more here.
Keywords: money; households vulnerability; adoption households; mobile money ... See more keywords
Mobile money for promoting conservation and community-based tourism and ecotourism in underdeveloped regions
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DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2016.1251011
Abstract: ABSTRACT Mobile phone money can develop tourism in a new way, such as through e-traveller’s cheques and e-credit cards, to bring about as cashless an economy as possible. While this will facilitate tourism, it will… read more here.
Keywords: tourism; money promoting; community; money ... See more keywords
Analysing slow growth of mobile money market in India using a market separation perspective
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DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2019.1668346
Abstract: ABSTRACT Since the application of mobile technology for financial services can contribute to the economic development of developing countries, it is critical to examine the inhibitors to using mobile money service in countries like India,… read more here.
Keywords: mobile money; separation perspective; market separation; money ... See more keywords
Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Moderating Role of Social Networks
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DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2017.1416214
Abstract: ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to test the moderating effect of social networks in the relationship between mobile money usage and financial inclusion in rural Uganda. The results revealed that there is a… read more here.
Keywords: mobile money; social networks; financial inclusion; inclusion rural ... See more keywords
Privacy Policy Analysis of Banks and Mobile Money Services in the Middle East
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DOI: 10.3390/fi13010010
Abstract: Privacy compliance of the Middle East’s financial sector has been relatively unexplored. This paper evaluates the privacy compliance and readability of privacy statements for top banks and mobile money services in the Middle East. Our… read more here.
Keywords: middle east; money services; mobile money; privacy ... See more keywords
Mobile Money, Individuals’ Payments, Remittances, and Investments: Evidence from the Ashanti Region, Ghana
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DOI: 10.3390/su10051409
Abstract: While many studies that are focused on mobile money concern the effects of mobile money on consumption and informal risk-sharing, little evidence is provided on how mobile money influences payments and microbusiness investment for low-income… read more here.
Keywords: money; money individuals; ashanti region; region ghana ... See more keywords
Comment on Apiors, E.K.; Suzuki, A. Mobile Money, Individuals’ Payments, Remittances, and Investments: Evidence from the Ashanti Region, Ghana. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1409
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DOI: 10.3390/su10082784
Abstract: Using primary, individual-level survey data for Ghana, Apiors and Suzuki find, among other things, that mobile money use is not dependent on financial status and that mobile money users save more. This note argues that… read more here.
Keywords: suzuki mobile; ghana; comment apiors; apiors suzuki ... See more keywords
Industry 4.0 in Financial Services: Mobile Money Taxes, Revenue Mobilisation, Financial Inclusion, and the Realisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa
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DOI: 10.3390/su14148667
Abstract: The use of mobile phones is a global phenomenon that provides developing countries with novel opportunities to enhance economic growth and facilitate improvement in the welfare of citizens. Governments have introduced mobile money taxes to… read more here.
Keywords: money taxes; revenue; money; mobile money ... See more keywords