Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya
Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”). From a small-scale pilot program in 2006, M-PESA has become an outstanding success...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2010
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| author | Lonie, Susie |
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| description | Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”). From a small-scale pilot program in 2006, M-PESA has become an outstanding success in Kenya; customer response has been unprecedented. Currently, more than 9 million Kenyans use M-PESA to perform tens of millions of transactions every month throughout the country. Although this success has led to new opportunities, it has also brought about many unforeseen challenges. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1545722025-11-06T04:33:20Z Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya Lonie, Susie microfinance agriculture smallholders rural finance risk management Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”). From a small-scale pilot program in 2006, M-PESA has become an outstanding success in Kenya; customer response has been unprecedented. Currently, more than 9 million Kenyans use M-PESA to perform tens of millions of transactions every month throughout the country. Although this success has led to new opportunities, it has also brought about many unforeseen challenges. 2010 2024-10-01T14:02:21Z 2024-10-01T14:02:21Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154572 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Lonie, Susie. 2010. Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 18(8). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154572 |
| spellingShingle | microfinance agriculture smallholders rural finance risk management Lonie, Susie Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya |
| title | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya |
| title_full | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya |
| title_short | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya |
| title_sort | innovations in rural and agricultural finance m pesa finding new ways to serve the unbanked in kenya |
| topic | microfinance agriculture smallholders rural finance risk management |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154572 |
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