Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia

Digital financial inclusion is important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Digital financial tools, such as mobile money, can, in principle, be used by anyone with a cell phone. There are several different ways that mobile money and services surrounding mobile money can help reduce pov...

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Autores principales: de Brauw, Alan, Roy, Shalini, Tefera, Mulugeta
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141039
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spelling CGSpace1410392025-11-06T04:42:53Z Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia de Brauw, Alan Roy, Shalini Tefera, Mulugeta refugees financial inclusion poverty alleviation households economics remuneration Digital financial inclusion is important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Digital financial tools, such as mobile money, can, in principle, be used by anyone with a cell phone. There are several different ways that mobile money and services surrounding mobile money can help reduce poverty. For example, research demonstrates that mobile money helps increase remittances from labour migrants. It also helps households to weather negative shocks to income. In addition, it helps encourage investments whether on-farm or in self-employment activities. 2022-12-01 2024-04-12T13:37:09Z 2024-04-12T13:37:09Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141039 en Open Access application/pdf Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning International Food Policy Research Institute de Brauw, Alan; Roy, Shalini; and Tefera, Mulugeta. 2022. Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia. CEDIL Evidence Brief 4. London, England; and Washington, DC. Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.51744/CEB4.
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financial inclusion
poverty alleviation
households
economics
remuneration
de Brauw, Alan
Roy, Shalini
Tefera, Mulugeta
Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia
title Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia
title_full Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia
title_fullStr Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia
title_short Financial services in refugee hosting areas: Can they promote inclusion? Lessons from the SHARPE project in Ethiopia
title_sort financial services in refugee hosting areas can they promote inclusion lessons from the sharpe project in ethiopia
topic refugees
financial inclusion
poverty alleviation
households
economics
remuneration
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141039
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