The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households

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dc.creatorWieser, Christina
dc.creatorKinzinger, Johannes
dc.creatorRuckteschler, Christian
dc.creatorHeitmann, Soren
dc.creatorBruhn, Miriam
dc.date2019-06-26T19:55:51Z
dc.date2019-06-26T19:55:51Z
dc.date2019-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:39:12Z
dc.descriptionMobile money lowers the costs of financial transactions, making it a promising tool for brining financial services to rural areas. This paper studies the effects of rolling out mobile money agents in poor and remote areas in Northern Uganda. The authors randomly assigned 329 areas to receive an agent in 2017, using 329 areas as a control group. Data from a 2018 household survey and administrative transactions data show little effect of the rollout. Mobile money transactions remained low, suggesting policies focused only on opening mobile money agents will not lead to transformative effects in poor and remote areas.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/134341561467884789/The-Impact-of-Mobile-Money-on-Poor-Rural-Households-Experimental-Evidence-from-Uganda
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31978
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-8913
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/408374
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8913
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectMOBILE MONEY
dc.subjectREMITTANCES
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectRURAL INCOME
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectSELF EMPLOYMENT
dc.titleThe Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households
dc.titleExperimental Evidence from Uganda
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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