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‘Fish in simulated water’? A Bourdieusian analysis of Chinese doctoral students' learning experiences in Southeast Asian developing countries

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract International student mobility (ISM) has historically followed a pattern of movement from developing regions to developed countries. However, in recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Chinese students pursuing doctoral studies in Southeast Asian developing countries, an area that has received relatively little ...
Yueyang Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption of mobile money banking in Ghana, using an innovative framework of Financial security, Governance, and Technology (FisGoT) model

open access: yesSustainable Futures
The study investigates the financial security threat in mobile money banking and proposes a framework to mitigate it. It examines factors influencing the acceptance of digital money transactions and the security risks in the mobile money ecosystem.
Afful Ekow Kelly
doaj   +1 more source

M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes
Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”).
Lonie, Susie
core  

The MOBILE MONEY

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advance in Scientific Research and Engineering (IJASRE), 2017
The mobile phones have evolved as a key tool of economic empowerment for the world's poorest people. They have resulted in aconcept emerging in the electronic banking industry known as mobile money. Mobile money enables electronic transfer of moneyfrom one person to another using a mobile phone. It is moving at a fast space in developing nations.
Matthew N. O. Sadiku1   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
wiley   +1 more source

Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda [PDF]

open access: yes
A large literature describes how local risk sharing networks can help individuals smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic economic shocks.
Joshua Blumenstock   +2 more
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Cashless economics: the new wave of mobile money [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
2017 marks the 10 year anniversary of M-PESA, the digital wallet that transformed financial inclusion and banking starting first in Kenya spreading through much of East Africa.
Kaul, Upaasna
core  

Green Banking Practices, Social, Health and Environmental Disclosures and Bank Financial Performance: The Role of Innovations and Corporate Governance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators in the banking industry in the Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) region are progressively concentrating on corporate innovation and bank social, health and environmental disclosures (BSHED) as crucial corporate governance (CG) structures to improve bank financial performance (BFP).
Douglas A. Adu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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