Mobile money

While digital credit broadens market access and reduces frictions in developing countries, default rates are often high. In Mexico, reducing loan speed—by doubling delivery time—decreased the likelihood of default significantly. Such waiting periods ...

How are Zambians utilising mobile money? What effect does mobile money have on rural poverty? Could tax changes slow mobile money growth?

Increasing women’s use of a digital financial service in Tanzania, mobile money, empowered women and led to improvements in women’s control over their finances.

Information is power: a low-cost transparency programme reduced vendor misconduct and increased market efficiency in Ghana’s mobile money market.

How did adopting platform "interoperability" - a policy that promotes transactions and competition across operators - impact mobile money users in Africa?

Improving access to saving tools helps urban Malawian microentrepreneurs save and adjust labour supply decisions

Mobile money agents need additional support to transform lives in poor rural areas

Disbursing microfinance loans through mobile money accounts empowers female entrepreneurs to resist pressure to share loans with others