Mobile Money: Communication, Consumption and Change in the Payments Space.
This article explores the emerging field of ‘mobile money’: mobile phone-enabled systems for value transfer and storage, primarily in the developing world, which are heralded as signal interventions in the effort to broaden financial inclusion and bank the ‘unbanked.’ Focusing on the stories that ci...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 589 - 605 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2012
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