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Mobile Money Empowering People Living at Bottom of Pyramid and Boosting Socio-Economic Development in a Big Way

Economic Analysis, 2016
Hardly anyone would disagree that mobile money is an engine of financial inclusion and has the potential to outreach millions of people, living at the bottom of pyramid and those living in remote areas. The current study was taken up to investigate the
Agrawal Reena
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Impact of mobile money adoption on financial inclusion in Sri Lanka: mediating impact of hedonism [PDF]

Journal of Money and Business
PurposeThis study uses hedonism as a mediating variable to examine the relationship between mobile money adoption and financial inclusion in Sri Lankan small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachWe conducted a quantitative ...
Narayanage Jayantha Dewasiri, Patikiri Koralalage Asanka Kumara, Simbiya Hevage Madu Lakmini Walakumbura, Mananage Shanika Hansini Rathnasiri, Potupitiya Gamaathige Sanjeewani Amila Jayarathne   +4 more
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Mobile Money as a Sustainable Alternative for SMEs in Less Developed Financial Markets

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2020
Despite the many advantages that mobile money offers to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) relative to traditional banking services, the majority of stakeholders of this platform have not yet maximised its use owing to several concerns not limited
Robertson Khan Tengeh, Frank Sylvio Gahapa Talom   +1 more
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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer, Lindsay Lanteri, Rebekah Levine Coley, Samantha Teixeira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A prototype mobile money implementation in Nigeria [PDF]

, 2012
Researchers have shown that majority of the populace in the developing nations are rural dwellers that do not have access to basic financial services and are poor.
Akinsiku, D., Ayo, C. K., Omote, U., Oni, Aderonke A, Ukpere, W. I.   +4 more
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Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani, Yolanda Hernández‐Albújar, Nerea Larrinaga‐Bidegain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social networks and technology adoption: Evidence from mobile money in Uganda

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021
Innovative financial technologies are becoming a pathway to inclusive economic participation for individuals and firms. This paper presents evidence on how individuals’ decisions to adopt such technology, particularly mobile money, relate to the adoption
Alfred Kechia Mukong, Lwanga Elizabeth Nanziri   +1 more
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Social network effects on mobile money adoption in Uganda [PDF]

, 2015
Social networks play a vital role in generating social learning and information exchange that can drive the diffusion of new financial innovations.
de Brauw, Alan, Mugabi, Nicholas, Murendo, Conrad, Wollni, Meike   +3 more
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling and forecasting mobile money customer transaction volumes in rural and semi-urban Malawi: An autoregressive integrated moving average spatial decomposition

Scientific African
Mobile money technologies in Malawi have revolutionised banking and monetary transactions across geographical barriers. Prospects of profit have drawn mobile money agents to invest in the business but find it is more profitable when substantial customers
Danny Namakhwa, Betchani Henry Mbuyampungatete Tchereni, Winford Masanjala, Collins Duke Namakhwa, Steven Limbanazo Kuchande, Wisdom Richard Mgomezulu   +5 more
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