Mobile Money: Communication, Consumption and Change in the Payments Space

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 589-604

  Maurer, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FINANCE; MOBILE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84862314785     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2011.621944     Document Type: Article

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