The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda (English)

Mobile 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...

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Wieser,Christina;

Bruhn,Miriam;

Kinzinger,Johannes Philipp;

Ruckteschler,Christian Simon;

Heitmann,Soren;
Document Date
2019/06/25
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8913
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Uganda,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2019/06/25
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Keywords
mobile money

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Wieser,Christina; Bruhn,Miriam; Kinzinger,Johannes Philipp; Ruckteschler,Christian Simon; Heitmann,Soren.

The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8913 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/134341561467884789

The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda (English)

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