Mobile money as an interface between finance and livelihood
Digital payment tools and mobile money receive growing attention as a possible tool for alleviating poverty and expanding the benefits of market economies. Especially the Kenyan product M-Pesa gained prominence, since Suri and Jack (2016) published a study according to which it paved a way out of poverty for 2% of the country’s households. However, there are more skeptical notions, too. This debate is now gets a good basis in the long-term ethnographic study by Sibel Kusimba. She endows the conflicting assessments with differentiated reports on the contexts of M-Pesa usage in the Kenyan society.
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2021 ◽
Vol 10
(4, special issue)
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pp. 194-211
2021 ◽
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(ahead-of-print)
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2019 ◽
Vol 10
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pp. 117-127
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Vol 11
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pp. 109-123
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