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POLICY PAPERS
August 06, 2019
Following the launch of M-Pesa in 2007, Kenya has emerged as a global leader in the development of mobile money and in increasing rates of financial inclusion. This paper shows how M-Pesa’s success has led to a series of endogenous innovations that have shaped Kenya’s digital space, plac...
Feb
7
2019
11:30—1:00 PM
January 25, 2019
Rapid urbanization is reshaping developing countries and intensifying spatial inequalities. In their paper, Jean Lee and coauthors experimentally introduced mobile banking to rural and urban populations in Bangladesh to investigate inequality-reducing transfers.