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Progress in the reduction of the number of unbanked people.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB206184
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Mobile financial services in sub-Saharan Africa.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB203032
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The carrier's performance was driven in part by a 34% increase in revenue from M-Pesa, its mobile money service. Among regions, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the most active mobile…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB214798
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More than 25 million Kenyans use mobile money, with around 16 million transactions a day worth 36 billion dollars last year. Governments across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB235466
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This has put immense strain on these organisations, as well as exposing more borrowers to debt. Meanwhile, the region’s MFIs are coming under growing pressure to embrace new ways…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264427
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Home solar panels are providing electricity to households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that otherwise may not link to grids in the near-to-medium term. Just as households managed…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB217122
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With an ambitious development agenda to fund amid mounting debt, and under pressure from the IMF to rationalise revenues, the government aims to increase fiscal space with a set…
Somalia's oil ambitions.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB242840
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However, Kenya's wider economic prospects are buoyant, underlined by the IMF's robust 6.0% GDP growth forecast for 2016 and 6.1% in 2017.