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Mobile Money: Communication, Consumption and Change in the Payments Space

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Maurer, Bill·2012·Journal of Development Studies
DOI 10.1080/00220388.2011.621944
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This article explores the emerging field of ‘mobile money’: mobile phone-enabled systems for value transfer and storage, primarily in the developing world, which are heralded as signal interventions in the effort to broaden financial inclusion and bank the ‘unbanked.’ Focusing on the stories that circulate in the emergent network of expertise that is calling ‘mobile money’ into being, it discusses how economic techniques and social narratives about markets – specifically, narratives about the opportunities for profit and financial inclusion in the ‘payments space’ – format a consumer market for mobile money. Furthermore, it asks whether end-users' repurposing of mobile money – and the use of airtime as currency – heralds a new means of exchange or store of value, potentially remaking money in the process.

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Authors
Maurer, B.
Affiliations
University of California, Irvine (US)
Corresponding author
Maurer, Bill
ORCID
Maurer, Bill
Venue
Journal of Development Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2012-05
Volume
48
Issue
5
Pages
589-604
ISSN
  • 0022-0388 (ISSN-L)
  • 1743-9140
DOI
10.1080/00220388.2011.621944
OpenAlex
W2038413674
Cited by
338
References
53
Citations by year
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FWCI
22.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • The Journal of Development Studies (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Development
Keywords
mobile money, financial inclusion, unbanked populations, benefit transfer, medium of exchange, store of value, consumer market, social narratives, developing countries

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