The Responsibility of Mobile Money Intellectuals?

Donovan, Kevin (2012): The Responsibility of Mobile Money Intellectuals? Forthcoming in: Information Technology & International Development

Abstract

[This is a review of three books on microfinance and the cashless society]

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: microfinance, casless society, economic history
• Subjects: N - Economic History > N8 - Micro-Business History; L - Industrial Organization > L9 - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities > L96 - Telecommunications; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E42 - Monetary Systems ; Standards ; Regimes ; Government and the Monetary System ; Payment Systems; H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies; G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages

References

David M. Roodman, Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance, Center for Global Development, 2011, 275 pp., $7.99 (Kindle). ISBN: 1933286482

Tonny K. Omwansa & Nicholas P. Sullivan, Money, Real Quick: The Story of M- PESA, Guardian Books, 2012, 140 pp., $2.99 (Kindle). ASIN: B007FPP7NI

David Wolman, The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers – And the Coming Cashless Society, Da Capo Press, 2012, 240 pp., $11.99 (Kindle). ISBN: 0306818833

Donovan, K. (2012). Mobile money for financial inclusion. In T. Kelly & C. Rossotto (Eds.), Information and Communication for Development, 2012 (pp. 61–74). Washington, DC: World Bank.

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