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M-PESA responds: Benefits and Challenges of using mobile money to reduce poverty for women in Kenya

Posted: February 21st, 2012  |   viewed: (1,250)  |   Comments: ( 0 )  |   Topic: Blog Post, M-PESA, Mobile Money for the Unbanked Blog  |  

M-PESA Responds The M-PESA staff members were grateful for the feedback provided by the women’s groups. First, the workshop provided them with a broader context in which to understand how these groups

Benefits and challenges of using Mobile Money to reduce poverty for women in Kenya

Posted: February 9th, 2012  |   viewed: (1,140)  |   Comments: ( 1 )  |   Topic: Blog Post, M-PESA, Mobile Money for the Unbanked Blog  |  

Over the past seven months, my colleague Dr. Jane Mutinda from Kenyatta University in Kenya and I have been studying how mobile money services impact poverty reduction in rural Eastern Kenya. So