Paving a path to financial well-being [1]

At least 25 million Kenyans use M-PESA, a mobile money service, through which they transacted $28 billion in 2015. This was equivalent to about 44% of the country’s GDP. In this interview, Tavneet Suri talks about the rise of digital finance and the role it plays in financial well-being. She further discusses her work on digital credit in Kenya (M-Shwari) where she studies who receives digital loans, what the loans are used for and how they affects the lives of the beneficiaries.

Standfirst: 
Tavneet Suri talks about financial well-being as a catalyst for development in sub-Saharan Africa
Interviewee: 
tavneetsuri0 [2]
Date Published: 
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Tags: 
Mobile banking [3]
financial inclusion [4]
Digital credit [5]
M-Shwari [6]
Africa [7]
M-Pesa [8]
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Topic: 
Technology & Innovation [9]
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Audio File: 
Audio icon VoxDev talk Tavneet Suri.mp3 [14]