M-PESA PAYMENT SYSTEM IMPACT ON KENYA'S ECONOMY

M-Money Channel Distribution Case – Tanzania Vodacom Tanzania M-PESA

Mobile Money: the Economics of M‐pesa 1

Mobile money is a tool that allows individuals to make financial transactions using cell phone technology. In this paper, we report initial results of two rounds of a large survey of households in Kenya, the country that has seen perhaps the most rapid and widespread growth of a mobile money product – known locally as M‐PESA – in the developing world. We first summarize the mechanics of M‐ PESA...

Mobile Payments Go Viral M - PESA in Kenya

-PESA is a small-value electronic payment and store-of-value system in Kenya accessible from ordinary mobile phones. It has seen exceptional growth since its introduction in March 2007. Now in use by 9 million customers—40 percent of Kenya’s adult population—the system processes more transactions domestically than Western Union does globally. M-PESA’s market success is the result of the interpl...

Noncash payment methods in a cashless economy

Several non-cash record-keeping systems are formulated in a randommatching model. The crucial informational friction is that a seller’s endowment, which may be a random variable, and the transfer of goods to a buyer can only be observed by the traders in a pairwise meeting. With this friction monitoring of the payment is distinguished from monitoring of the complete transaction. For each implem...

Demonetisation: Impact on the Economy

The argument posited in favour of demonetisation is that the cash that would be extinguished would be “black money” and hence, should be rightfully extinguished to set right the perverse incentive structure in the economy. While the facts are not available to anybody, it would be foolhardy to argue that this is the only possibility. Therefore, it is imperative to evaluate the short run and medi...