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What to Read on M-PESA

May 29, 2010

...or anyway, what I read:Jenny Aker, Can You Text me Money Now? Using Mobile Phones for Cash TransfersJenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti, Mobile Phones and Economic Development in AfricaJenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti, Africa Calling, Boston ReviewCGAP technology blogStuart Rutherford on how M-PESA has boosted informal financeIgnacio Mas and Daniel Radcliffe, Mobile Payments Go Viral: M-PESA in KenyaFrederik Eijkman, Jake Kendall, and Ignacio Mas, Bridges to Cash: The Retail End of M-PESAIgnacio Mas and Amolo Ng’weno, Three Keys to M-PESA’s Success: Branding, Channel Management and PricingWilliam Jack and Tavneet Suri, Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESAMegan Plyler, Sherri Haas, and Geetha Nagarajan, Community Level Economic Effects of M-PESA in Kenya: Initial FindingsOther papers from IRIS.Ignacio Mas and Olga Morawczynski, Designing Mobile Money Services: Lessons from M-PESAMichael Ferguson, Notes From The Field: The Emerging Effects of M-Pesa’s Rural Outreach at the Household Level

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