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New Technologies in Remittance Sending: Opportunities for mobile remittances in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Melissa Siegel --- Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, the Netherlands Sonja Fransen --- Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, the NetherlandsMobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa, mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, therefore offering opportunities for... -
New insights on trust, honour and networking in informal entrepreneurship: Zimbabwean malayishas as informal remittance couriers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Phefumula Nyoni --- Department of Anthropology,The paper focuses on the utility of the concepts of trust and honour in understanding relations among Zimbabwean remittance couriers who are popularly known as “malayishas”. Trust and honour are explored in relation to how they produce and sustain a... -
Remittances, mobile phones and informality: Insights from Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Nathanael Ojong --- Department of Business Administration, CanadaResearch on mobile phones abound. However, the use of the mobile phone as an informal value transfer mechanism has received little attention. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna in academic literature by focusing on the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of...