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EcoCash Burundi: Mobile Money for Financial Inclusion

After Econet Wireless Burundi launched its EcoCash mobile wallet, mobile money overtook bank accounts as Burundians' main financial channel in a country …

Bujumbura, Burundi

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Malaysia National Fraud Portal — AI-powered real-time anti-scam network for financial intelligence

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and PayNet's National Fraud Portal (April 2024) links 53 institutions via FNA graph analytics to trace stolen funds …

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Zap — Mobile Money Cash Transfers for Drought-Affected Households

During Niger's 2010 food crisis, Concern Worldwide ran a randomized trial paying cash transfers via mobile money ('Zap') against manual cash and …

Tahoua, Niger

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Kenya's M-Pesa Mobile Money — Gender-Differentiated Poverty and Occupational Impact

Kenya's M-Pesa, launched 2007, lifted an est. 194,000 households (2% of Kenyan households) out of poverty by 2014, with female-headed households gaining …

Nairobi, Kenya

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Rural Digital & Financial Literacy Toolkit – Uganda

A Hive Colab/UNCDF/NITA-U toolkit delivered by 300 trained facilitators in five local languages reached 55,000 women, youth and refugees across five Ugandan …

Kampala, Uganda