Mobile Phones

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Blog Post

Can Mobile Phone Surveys Identify People’s Development Priorities?
Ben Leo
and
Robert Morello
October 20, 2015
Mobile phone surveys are fast, flexible, and cheap. But, can they be used to engage citizens on how billions of dollars in donor and government resources are spent?
WORKING PAPER

Asking What the People Want: Using Mobile Phone Surveys to Identify Citizen Priorities - Working Paper 418
Benjamin Leo
and
Robert Morello
October 16, 2015
Using an experimental design, we assess the feasibility of interactive voice recognition (IVR) surveys for gauging citizens’ development priorities. Our project focuses on four low-income countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe). We find that mobile phone-based approach...
Blog Post

Investing in Financial Inclusion – Podcast with Njuguna Ndung'u
Rajesh Mirchandani
October 14, 2015
With growth, development and financial inclusion high on the agenda at the recent World Bank/IMF meetings in Lima, Peru, this week's podcast looks back at an innovation that helped bring millions of people in Kenya into the financial system. Economist and former governor of the Central Bank of K...
POLICY PAPER

Enabling Digital Financial Inclusion through Improvements in Competition and Interoperability: What Works and What Doesn't?
Marc Bourreau
and
Tommaso Valletti
June 16, 2015
The development of mobile payment platforms in developing countries is revolutionizing access to finance for the poor. Mobile payment platforms allow their users to pay and transfer funds in mobile money but also offer access to other financial products, such as savings or insurance.