Retail Electronic Payments Systems for Value Transfers in the Developing World
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A new “payments space” has emerged in the past five to ten years that promises to bring access to funds transfer, banking and financial services to millions of unbanked people in developing countries and in the diasporas that remit funds to them. This payments space is characterized by the innovative use of new information and communications technologies. This paper summarizes the experience to date of such new electronic payments systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008