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Kenya’s mobile telephones: Vital for the poor

Nov 12, 2012

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Economic Development, Microenterprise, Poverty, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet)

Economist: Kenya's mobile telephones: Vital for the poor AFRICA'S "mobile decade", when telephones at last reached most corners of the continent, has meant a huge improvement in the lives of the poor. But quantifying it is hard. How useful can a mobile phone be to someone living on less than $2.50 a day, the World…