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The Impact of Mobile Money in Developing Countries

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  • Jana Hamdan

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Mobile money is a success story in terms of facilitating account ownership and payments in developing and emerging countries. Today, telecommunication companies offer mobile money services across more than 90 countries. The most popular services are deposits and instant digital money transfers between users. Widespread mobile money adoption is boosting financial inclusion, reducing in transaction costs and facilitating successful consumption smoothing and risk sharing among users. Nonetheless, mobile money is also associated with heterogeneous effects and risks among the poor and vulnerable populations. This article reviews the recent literature on the impact of mobile money in developing countries.

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  • Jana Hamdan, 2019. "The Impact of Mobile Money in Developing Countries," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 131, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
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    1. Patrick-Hervé Mbouombouo Mfossa, 2022. "Mobile money-driven financial inclusion, exposure to shocks and households' financial resilience strategies adoption process: Evidence from Cameroon [Inclusion financière via le mobile money, expos," Working Papers hal-03614064, HAL.
    2. Song, Yunxing & Gong, Yuanyuan & Song, Yan & Chen, Xiaohui, 2024. "Exploring the impact of digital inclusive finance on consumption volatility: Insights from household entrepreneurship and income volatility," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    3. Kabengele, Christian & Hahn, Rüdiger, 2021. "Institutional and firm-level factors for mobile money adoption in emerging markets–A configurational analysis," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    4. Patrick-Hervé Mbouombouo Mfossa, 2019. "Mobile Money-Driven Financial Inclusion and Financial Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Cameroon [L’inclusion financière via le mobile money et résilience financière en Afrique Subsah," Post-Print hal-03622403, HAL.
    5. Apeti, Ablam Estel & Edoh, Eyah Denise, 2023. "Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    6. Apeti, Ablam Estel, 2023. "Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in developing countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    7. Ablam Estel Apeti, 2022. "Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in developing countries," Post-Print hal-03819779, HAL.

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