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IMTFI Blog: Gender, Cash, and the Mobile in Papua New Guinea
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Gender, Cash, and the Mobile in Papua New Guinea. We are happy to share our most recent working paper, written by Supriya Singh and Yaso Nadarajah: "School Fees, Beer and 'Meri': Gender, Cash, and the Mobile in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea". From the abstract:. Click here to read our working paper! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Back to IMTFI home page. Posts by guest bloggers are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of IMTFI.
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IMTFI Blog: Hand Held Wealth?: A Case of Tigo Money in Bolivia
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Monday, May 4, 2015. A Case of Tigo Money in Bolivia. Advertisement for Tigo Money on the side of a Bolivian bus (Photo by the authors). By IMTFI Researchers Maria Isabel Balderrama and Oscar Rocabado. Tigo Money: How does it work? How Tigo Money works. However, Bolivian Tigo Money users face a big hurdle in that Tigo's mobile service coverage does not reach the most rural areas of Bolivia, including Urmiri and Chayanta. T. As a result, Tigo describes Tigo Money as. We found that most of the recipients o...
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IMTFI Blog: Too Good to be True?: Is the Global Findex survey overstating growth in financial inclusion?
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Too Good to be True? Is the Global Findex survey overstating growth in financial inclusion? Since it was published a few weeks ago, the World Bank's 2014 Global Findex report. Number of Unbanked in U.S. and Eurozone Cut in Half. US unbanked population drops from 12 percent to 6 percent in 2011-14; Eurozone cuts number of unbanked from 9 percent to 5 percent, according to report.". Read more at the full post on the NextBillion.net. Posted by Nathan Dobson. Back to IMTFI home page.
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IMTFI Blog: How "the Poor" Account: Financial Reckoning and its Cosmoeconomics in Assam, India (Part Three)
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Friday, May 1, 2015. How "the Poor" Account: Financial Reckoning and its Cosmoeconomics in Assam, India (Part Three). By IMTFI Researcher Sean Dowdy. The “shared account” is my translation of the kind of “public accounting” ( raijor hisap. Is a part of the necessary structure of shared accounts, which are not mere mnemonic devices, but mnemotechnics. In the Nietzschean sense), meaning that they inflict. Or pardon/exemption, is issued. Uddhar. Several relatives not shown). Would be granted to allow him to...
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IMTFI Blog: It's all in the wrist!
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. It's all in the wrist! The imprinter gestural system, otherwise known as "the swipe" in payment transactions, is on its way out according to our Director, Bill Maurer. Check out the featured article over at Visa's tumblr. Anyone remember the knuckle-buster or zip-zap machines as they were called? Posted by Nathan Dobson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Back to IMTFI home page. Posts by guest bloggers are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of IMTFI.
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IMTFI Blog: Understanding diverse uses of mobile phones and definitions of welfare: Revisiting the fishers of Kerala
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Understanding diverse uses of mobile phones and definitions of welfare: Revisiting the fishers of Kerala. By Janaki Srinivasan and Jenna Burrell based upon their IMTFI-funded research projec. T with Richa Kumar. Fish Auctioning in Vizhinjam, a landing center in south Kerala, 9/25/2012. Field site and findings. We first encountered our field site through a study that has become canonical in ICTD: economist Robert Jensen’s study. While a majority of these individuals perceived mobi...
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IMTFI Blog: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Affective Investments": The Politics of Microfinance Tourism. First cohort, IMTFI fellow Anke Schwittay recently published a new book titled New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance. Routledge 2014). Research for this book began in 2009 with an IMTFI grant awarded to her and Paul Braund. To study the digital lending network emerging around Kiva.org. To read more of Anke Schwittay's work with IMTFI. Posted by Nandita Badami. People wo...
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