Monetary Theory and Electronic Money: Reflections on the Kenyan Experience

This article uses a class of models of money and the payments system to inform an analysis of "mobile banking" in the context of the rapid expansion of M-PESA, a new technology in Kenya that allows payments via mobile phones (even without any access to a bank account), and currently reache...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jack, William, Suri, Tavneet, Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61977
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7552-7945
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102