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RHVP has identified key documents concerning various aspects of hunger and vulnerability, food security and social protection in Africa.

We welcome new additions to the library. If you have a relevant document/s that you would like us to include in this collection, please contact john@rhvp.org.

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  • Mobile money goes mainstream
    Lanre Akinola
    Esa Ehreriene
    2010

    When Vodafone launched the M-Pesa mobile money transfer service through its subsidiary Safaricom in Kenya in February 2007, few could have predicted its success. Originally developed with funding by the UK's Department for International Development, it has quickly outgrown its development roots. By April of this year the service had 9.5m active users and accounted for approximately $330m worth of person-to-person transactions. This success has caught the attention of other major operators on the continent, most of which are actively rolling out mobile money services. As such services become a mainstream offering, the potential application of mobile technology in addressing one of Africa's most pressing development challenges - financial inclusion - is becoming clearer.

  • M-Payments in M-BRIC: How to best leverage the upcoming opportunity
    Arthur D. Little
    2010

    Mobile financial services are experiencing a global surge, especially in emerging markets. Global total transaction volume is expected to reach approximately USD 280 billion by 2015. Clearly, there is an enormous potential for M-payments in M-BRIC countries, but how to best capture it? This article provides an overview of the best entry strategies and indicates how players in each country must consider specific local requirements in order to succeed in the m-payment market.

  • The politics behind the non-contributory old age social pensions in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa
    Larissa Pelham
    2007

    Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Botswana comprise a cluster of southern African countries which provide monthly non-contributory benefits to their elderly citizens. This paper seeks to understand the differing political and socio-economic conditions in which the three pensions evolved and suggest what implications pensions may have for the nature of the
    citizen-state relationship.

  • Banking Service Revolution
    Brendan Peacock
    2010

    A NEW generation of banking service has been ushered in by FNB’s eWallet – a facility that enables the bank’s customers to send money to any South African resident with a cellphone, anywhere in the country, instantly.

    Since the eWallet was launched in November last year, the facility has seen a 240percent growth in users and a record transaction rate of more than R1million a day, indicating that it offers greater ease of use and peace of mind over physical methods of cash transfer.

  • Tata Teleservices gets Grant from the ‘Mobile Money for the Unbanked’ Fund
    2010

    The GSMA announces 7 new grantees from its "Mobile Money for the Unbanked" Fund, including Tata Indicom in India, Cellcard in Cambodia, Digicel in Fiji, Orange in West Africa, Safaricom in Kenya, Telenor in Pakistan, and Tigo in Africa.

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