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▼a 9780438153073 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)AAI10752257 |
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▼a Tuwei, David Kiplagat. |
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▼a Communication Technology, Capabilities and Livelihoods: The Role of Mobile Money in Facilitating Financial Inclusion and Development in Rural Kenya. |
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▼a [S.l.]:
▼b The University of Iowa.,
▼c 2018. |
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▼a Ann Arbor:
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018. |
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▼a 195 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Melissa Tully. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2018. |
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▼a In urban and rural Kenya, mobile money, the use of the mobile telephone for banking has become a part of everyday life. People use mobile money to accomplish a variety of functions such as transfer money, save, and pay bills, among other uses. A |
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▼a The findings from this research are based on a three-month period of fieldwork on M-Pesa use and facilitation in Chepkoilel, a rural community in western Kenya. Three questions guided this research: how has M-Pesa fit into people's existing fina |
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▼a In this research, I found that M-Pesa users and M-Pesa agents utilized M-Pesa for their individual development. Notably, the M-Pesa agency business model had provided new opportunities for entrepreneurship to rural dwellers. Equally important, t |
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▼a This study has also examined the intermediary work of M-Pesa agents in the mobile money ecosystem. As nodes linking Safaricom and its customers, M-Pesa agents were important actors in the system of exchange and value. Their domestication practic |
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▼a I conclude that though M-Pesa was important for people's development, the low-income population faced digital divide challenges in their attempts to utilize M-Pesa for their development. For instance, the relative high cost of services led to no |
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▼a School code: 0096. |
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▼a Communication. |
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▼a Journalism. |
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▼a The University of Iowa.
▼b Mass Communications. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 79-12A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0096 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14997222
▼n KERIS
▼z 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다. |
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▼a 201812
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