Mobile Money, Remittances, and Household Welfare: Panel Evidence from Rural Uganda

By Ggombe Kasim Munyegera, Tomoya Matsumoto. 2016

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Can Mobile Phones Improve Gender Equality and Nutrition? Panel Data Evidence from Farm Households in Uganda (2017, background): “As in other African countries, mobile phones were adopted very rapidly in Uganda during the last 10 years and are now widely used even by very poor households in remote rural locations (Muto and Yamano, 2009; UCC, 2015; Munyegera and Matsumoto, 2016).”
Mobile Money, Agricultural Marketing, and Off-Farm Income in Uganda (2017, background): “More remittances received from relatives and friends increase household incomes directly; indirect effects can occur because remittances also act as a kind of insurance (Jack and Suri, 2014; Munyegera and Matsumoto, 2016).”
Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, positive): “…natural disasters Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3849699 (Blumenstock, Eagle, & Fafchamps, 2016; Jack & Suri, 2014; Lyons, Kass-Hanna, & Greenlee, 2020; Munyegera & Matsumoto, 2016; Riley, 2018; Suri & Jack, 2016; Wieser, Bruhn, Kinzinger, Ruckteschler, & Heitmann, 2019).”