Payment mechanisms and antipoverty programs: Evidence from a mobile money cash transfer experiment in Niger

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-37

  Aker, Jenny C ^a   Boumnijel, Rachid ^b   McClelland, Amanda ^c   Tierney, Niall ^d  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Relief International   (Philippines)

^c International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies   (United States)

^d Irish Aid Ethiopia   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD CONSUMPTION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL POLICY; VILLAGE;

NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84991709211     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/687578     Document Type: Review

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