Mobile money improves diet and savings in Niger
Delivering cash transfers via mobile money improved household diet diversity by 9-16%, partly due to time savings from not traveling to collect payments.
Tufts University / World Bank, 2016
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ou can't save, borrow, or build a business without access to financial tools. In many communities, that access doesn't exist. Steady, monthly income through mobile money creates a financial identity where there was none.
Delivering cash transfers via mobile money improved household diet diversity by 9-16%, partly due to time savings from not traveling to collect payments.
Tufts University / World Bank, 2016
Read studyUnconditional cash transfers to poor rural Kenyan households increased monthly consumption by 22% and boosted investment in assets by 61%.
Princeton University / Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, 2016
Read studyM-Pesa mobile money access lifted 194,000 Kenyan households out of poverty, with effects driven by increased savings and women shifting from farming into business.
MIT / Georgetown University, 2016
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