Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion

Final Report/Synopsis of Research Results: Technological advances on mobile technology has made it possible to transfer money faster and cheaper even to distant areas. Philippines-based service providers have turned this technology into a multimillion peso business. Development practioners have drumbeated its potential,particularly in financial services, in serving frontier areas or geographically distant , hard to reach locales with pockets of economically challenged and socially excluded populations. Frontier areas have money ecologies that develop in the context of poverty, coping and distance from centers of power and commerce.