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Mobile Banking in the Global South - Revolutionary Economic Change?

Posted by KatrinVerclas on Jan 21, 2007

mobile banking phoneMobile banking is taking off, with the potential to change entire economies where the majority of people currently are currently "unbanked," as the term goes. There have been been several very interesting reports and articles recently on the topic.  On the Foreign Policy blog, World bank consultant Christine Bowers writes about the enormous  economic implications that mobile banking has for the world's poorest: