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> Posted by Susan Johnson, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For further questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International.
On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, Susan Johnson will be discussing mobile banking and its implications in Kenya at the Center for Financial Inclusion. This event is open to the public and will be a brown bag luncheon discussion with Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM). For more information and to RSVP, please click here.
Savings have been seen as the “forgotten half” of microfinance for some time, and now the rapid growth of payment services over mobile phones suggests that these too have been a forgotten half! With some 15 million registered users of mobile money transfer services in Kenya, mobile payment services are meeting a vital need. But with access to a mobile money service often being treated as ‘financial inclusion’ in the policy discourse, it is also important to ask whether it really means the same for users as it does for policy makers. Read the rest of this entry »
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