IMTFI Funded Research Projects Title IMTFI Funded Research Projects Collection Items A Study of Money and Financial Services and the Impact of ICTs Among Poor Communities in Developing Countries: The Case of Botswana A study on m-finance and consumption smoothening among the poor with irregular income streams Analysis of Financial Practices Among Families in Two Cities Indigenous to the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico Borrowing from the Gods: Oracular Deities as Traditional Sources of Credit among the Igbo of Nigeria Cubanos Convertibles: Meanings of Multiple Currencies in Cuba Democratizing Capital': Digital Lending Networks, Mobile Technologies and Women's Solidarity Groups in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala E-money for Enhancing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at Bottom of the Pyramid: A Case Study for m-Banking in Kenya Follow the Bean: Navigating Value Exchange and Vulnerability with Farmers and their Stakeholders Forms of Money: An inquiry into the processes of use and adaptation among the Konda Reddis of south India Local Money Systems: financial inclusion and reduction of poverty Making Good Money: Microcredit, Commercial Financing, and Social Regulation in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area Managing risks: what do poor households in Yogyakarta do to smooth their consumption? Network Linkages and Money Management: An Anthropological Purview of the Beesi Network amongst the Urban Poor Muslims in Old City Area of Lucknow, India. Tabula Rasa? Conceptions of Microfinance in Juba, Sudan The Impact of New Technology on the Use of Money as a Means of Spending, Saving and Storing by the Poor The Poor and their Money: Rickshaw Pullers in Delhi Yesterday's Nomads and Modern Money A study to understand the saving pattern and credit needs of the tribal families of Maharashtra and Gujarat State of India Adapting and extending the use of accumulating savings and credit associations through village savings and loan associations: The case of Care International in Malawi Banking and Microfinance in Brazil Banking on the Phone: Using Novel Sources of Data to Understand the Impact of Mobile Banking in Rwanda Consumption smoothening, financial literacy and old age vulnerability: Experiences of success and failure with a private pension system in Chile Emerging Mobile Money Practices in Afghanistan Evaluation of Money Management strategies between the urban and rural ultra poor Financial Inclusion in Sri Lanka: Constraints and Prospects Financial inclusion or developmental exclusion? The carbon credit payment to forest inhabitants in Brazilian Amazon Follow the Bean: Navigating Value Exchange and Vulnerability for Cooperative Coffee Farmers and their Stakeholders Gender and Money: Case Studies from Philippine Indigenous Communities Mobile Money in Haiti: Potentials and Challenges Money, Conflict, and Reciprocity in Rural Families in Zambia: The Case of Female University Students Moni, Marginality, and Modernization in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea Post Redenomination and Money Management among Ghana's Urban Poor Small Ruminants as a Source of Financial Security: A Case Study of Rural Women in Southwest Nigeria The Impact of New Technologies on Social Payments Unknown remittances of the migrants died abroad: A study on the recovery and dynamics of usage of remittances An Assessment of Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Services in East Africa: Case Studies from Uganda and Tanzania Best Practices in Mobile Microfinance Beyond the Failed State: Capital Mobilization, Investment and Entrepreneurship Among Somali Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya Deteriminants of the Demand for Micro-saving Programs in Uruguay: Motivation and Resistance to Join C3U Differences between Fee Structure of Mobile Money Technologies and Traditional Banking Systems, Social Psychological Determinants and Service Uptake: A Case Study of Uganda Does Microloan Repayment via Cell Phone Increase Client Confidence in Mobile Value Storage? The Case of Green Bank in Mindanao, Philippines Does Mobile Money Matter? Exploring Mobile Money Adoption by Ghana's Urban Poor Exploring Use of Mobile Banking Services by the Poor: Case of Wizzit Bank in South Africa Harvesting Death: Do Tobacco Growers Need Financial Inclusion? An Analysis into the Monetary Problems and Prospects Enshrouding Farmers Harvesting Tobacco in Basti District, Uttar Pradesh, India Impact of EKO's SimpliBank on the Saving Behaviour and Practices of Low Income Users: The Indian Experience Impact of Mobile Money Services on Microfinance Institutions Material Cultures of Financial Literacy Among Rural and Urban Poor in Orissa, India Mobile Money Services and Entrepreneurial Development in Rural Communities: The Case of the Agricultural Kikuyu and Pastoral Maasai Communities in Kenya Mobile Money Services and Poverty Reduction: A Study of 21 Women's Groups in the Rural Region of Eastern Kenya Mobile Phone Cash In Cash Out Service in a Frontier Area: The Dynamics of New Money Technology and Embedded Systems of Money Relationships Money Management and Mechanism in Palestinian Economy in Multi-Currencies Context Tell Me How You Earn and Spend Money - And I Will Tell You Who You Are The Financial Ecologies and Circuits of Commerce of Retail Credit Cards in Santiago de Chile Untouchable Wealth: The Moral Exchange of New Wealth among Women in an Urban Nepali Untouchable-Caste Community Value Systems in China: A User-Centered Approach to Designing Inclusive Second-Generation Banking "E-SUSU" Operation: Can Mobile Money Revolutionise an Ancient Saving System Among Indigenous West Africans? "My Credit History": New Monetary Practices among Altaians in the Post-Soviet Period A Study in Tracking the Shift from Savings to Remittance on the Mobile Backbone: Findings from Eko, India A Study on Association of Social Capital with Microfinance and Local Saving Programs among the Muslim Poor in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India A Work Practice Approach to Understanding Actors in Agricultural Markets: Revisiting the Fishermen of Kerala, India Banking the Poor through Mobile Telephony: Understanding the Challenges for Expanding Mobile-Based Financial Services in Latin America Betting on Chance in Colombia: How Game Operator Networks Succeed in Providing Financial Services to the Poor While Other Networks Stay Behind Composing Development? Biometrics, Smart Cards and Financial Inclusion in South Africa's Social Protection Initiative Delivering Cash Grants to Indigenous Peoples Through ATM and GCASH Remit: Boon or Bane? The Case of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines Evolving Participatory Relationships for Uplifting Urban Poor Rickshaw Pullers: Next Step Forward Gender Empowerment and Access to Financial Services in Machakos County, Eastern Kenyan Generating, Storing and Exchanging Value: Comparing Financial Practices in Mexican and Indian Rural Communities Impact Research of Farmers' Access to ICT-based Decision Software to Household Savings Generation and Credit Loan Payments Making Sense of Mobile Money in Urban Ghana: Personal, Business, Social and Financial Inclusion Prospects Mobile Kin and Mobile Money: The Anthropology of International Remittances in Kenya Mobile Payment Adoption in Brazil: Investigation on a Pilot Implementation Mobilizing Religion as Value Storage: Islamic Microfinance in Bangladesh as a Model for Poverty Alleviation? Resistance to e-Money in Poor Remittances Receivers' Families, Case in Lombok Island, Indonesia The Impact of Pure Mobile Microfinancing on the Poor The Use of Mobile Money Services and Platforms among the Visually Impaired in Kenya: Any Impact on Poverty Reduction? Mobile Social Media and Mobile Payments in Indonesia, IMTFI/Sicap partnership Mobile Money Information System Architecture for an Open Air Market Mobile Money Payments in Ghana "Positioning the Retail Agents as Change Agents in the Transformation of Mobile Payment Transactions" Mobile Money Information System Architecture for an Open Air Market A participatory look at women traders' cognitive understanding and perceptions of the use of mobile money systems in northern Ghana Automated Teller Machine Fraud in South-West Nigeria: The Shoe-wearers' Perspectives Banking with the patron: the case of patron-client in Makassar, Indonesia Cashless or Cashlite? Mobile Money Use and Currency Redenomination in Zambia Challenges facing the uptake of M-insurance loyalty based life insurance schemes: A case study of the yuCover micro-insurance scheme in Kenya Contingency routes: Somali financial flows and transnational spaces between Kenya and Uganda Exploring the nature, scope and feasibility of existing technological infrastructure of India's National e-Governance Plan's Customer Service Centre scheme towards converting in-cash transactions into cashless transactions Gambling and Mobile Money Payments: A Case Study of Sports Betting in Uganda How "The Poor" Account: Financial Reckoning and its Cosmoeconomics in Assam, India How does mobile money affect adopters' social networks? Investing in Indigneity: Big Bills, Fungibility, and Mobile Cash in Andean Peru Mobile Money Utility and Financial Inclusion: Insights From Unbanked Poor End-Users Mobile value added services for inclusive growth: A study of women micro-entrepreneurs in Fiji Njangi Sociality: Mobility, ICTS, and Mobile Money Usages and Practices amongst Poor Rural Farmers in the Cameroon Grassfields One Among Many? Examining the Efficacy of Mobile Money in India's Remittance Corridors Silk Societies, Gold Stories: Using Gold-Based Life Stories to Study Gender, Financial Inclusion, and Work Vulnerability in South Indian Sericulture Spatial Complementarity of Mobile Financial Services, Business Correspondents, and Banking Infrastructures: Accounting for Mobile Financial Services Ecosystems in India The new information ecosystem being developed around mobile money: A behavioral analysis of mobile money users in India The use and impact of mobile money in the delivery of conditional cash transers in the Philippines Understanding the movement of cash of the privately led enterprises in Dharavi and scope for electronic or mobile payments Understanding the transformative value of Tongan women's kau tou lalanga: mobile mats, mobile phones, and money transfer agents Sarvajal Mobile-lizing Savings Assessing the Impact of Financial Knowledge on Adoption of Mobile Payment Systems among Enterprise Owners in Dharavi, Mumbai Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers Via Savings Accounts: Default and Mental Accounting Mechanisms Does Financial Inclusion Spur Overseas Filipinos to Invest? A Remittance Investment Climate (ReIC) Study in a Rural Hometown Effectiveness and Challenges of Mobile Money Services in the Implementation of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment Programme: A Case of Kiboga District in Uganda Hand Held Wealth? Mobile Money & Food Production in Rural Potosi Juggling Currencies in Trans-Border Contexts: Mexico/US Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion in Mali: What has Been the Impact on Saving Practices? Mobile Money and the Coming of Age in Western Kenya Mobile Money Financial Literacy via Television Comedy Mobile Money, Social Capital and Financial Behavior of Women's Cooperatives in Rural Nigeria Pastoral Adaptation to Market Opportunities and Changing Gender Roles Among Afar in Ethiopia: Aspects, Trends, and Prospects Paying Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Bank Accounts Reimagining Rurality in Mobile Money Times: Life, Identity, and Community Risk Preferences, Time Preference, and Willingness-to-Pay with Mobile Money versus Cash in Bangladesh Storing and Transferring Money in a Cash-Strapped Fishing Municipality in the Bicol Region The Formal Disguise: Financial Inclusion Among Flexible Workers and the Self-Employed The Physical and Electronic Payment Interface and its Influence on Consumer Payment Choices and Informal/Fraudulent Practices: A Case Study of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NSWC) Uganda The Use and Impact of M-Shwari as a Financial Banking Product in Urban and Rural Areas of Kenya When the Dead Decide: An Investigation into the Influence of the Ancestors in the Decision to Use Mobile Technology in a Rural Community in Northern Ghana Women, Monetary Practices, and Technological Innovations The New Financial Architecture of Ecuador: Public Regulatory and Sociopolitical Contexts for Payment Systems Money Practices & Services Myanmar Assessing the Need and Feasibility for Using Pre-Paid Card Technology in Delivering Added Services to Microfinance Customers in selected regions of Uttar Pradesh Assessing Unmet Needs of Small Merchants in Adopting Digital Payment System in Southern Ghana Cross-border Transfers as a Strategic Tool to Promote the Diffusion of Mobile Money in Rural Areas. The Case of Burkinabe Diaspora Living in Ivory Coast Dimensions of Electronic fraud and Governance of Trust in Nigeria's Cashless Ecosystem Exploring Rosca Dynamics with a Cambodian Factory Worker Board Game Financial Security: Laborers? Transfer of Value from Karachi's Marketplaces to Tribal War Zones in Pakistan Generational Tensions in the Uptake of Digital Financial Services: Adolescent Girls and Adults in Nigeria Group versus Individual Strategies: Dynamic Social Networks of Mobile Money among Unbanked Women in Western Kenya Influence of Mobile Money on Control of Productive Resources Among Women Micro Entrepreneurs Participating Table Banking in Nakuru, Kenya Informal Loan Trap: Bombay 5-6 and its Effect to Tacloban Micro-entrepreneurs Intermediaries, Cash Economies, and Technological Change in Myanmar and India Managing, negotiating, and converting "currency" in daily life in a multicurrency environment of Zimbabwe Separate self, interdependent self and new financial technologies - Lessons from rural southern India Sports Betting in Uganda: Causes and Consequences Strange Intersections: Humans, Technology and Disaster in a Himalayan Valley The Curious Case of Mobile Micro-insurance in South Africa: A View from Above and Below The role of mobile money in social protection networks in two rural areas of Colombia To Send or to Carry? Gendered Evaluations of Formal and Informal Remittance Practices in Migrant-Origin Villages in Central Java, Indonesia Consumer Finance Research Toolkit View all 143 items
