Mobile money taxation is a controversial subject. On the one hand mobile money has been something…
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Agricultural Insurance for Smallholder Farmers: Digital Innovations for Scale
Globally, less than 20 per cent of smallholder farmers have insurance. Low awareness of insurance…
Partnering During Crisis
he ubiquity and scale of mobile networks has made mobile an attractive delivery channel for…
Mobile Money Recommendations to Central Banks in Response to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented challenges for the global economy. It has affected…
Proportionate Regulation in Uganda: A Gateway for Refugees Accessing Mobile Services in Their Own Name
The world’s refugee population is growing. Although mobile connectivity is not an antidote to the…
LISTEN NOW: Navigating the Shift to Digital Humanitarian Assistance: Lessons from the International Rescue Committee’s Experience
This webinar, featuring Belinda Baah and Zoe Hamilton from the GSMA’s Mobile for Humanitarian Programme…
Digital Identity and Social Cash Transfers
The efficient implementation of social protection systems – and particularly social cash transfers – requires…
The Digital Lives of Refugees
This research produced by GSMA with UNHCR, looks at the ways in which refugees are…
LISTEN NOW: The Digital Lives of Refugees: How displaced populations use mobile phones and what gets in the way?
This webinar discusses research by GSMA with UNHCR which explores the ways in which refugees…
Displaced and Disconnected
UNHCR recognizes that one of the ‘hard stops’ in facilitating mobile connectivity and access to…
Telesom ZAAD: Pushing the mobile money CVA frontier
This case study by the GSMA reveals the promise of mobile money-enabled cash and voucher assistance…
Mobile Money Glossary
This glossary by GSMA provides definitions for common mobile money industry terminology in English, French…
LISTEN NOW: Is mobile money the future of cash and voucher assistance (CVA)?
Billions of dollars in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes are currently delivered annually, and…
Bridging the mobile gender gap for refugees
This case study by GSMA highlights the experiences of refugee women (compared to men) with…
Exploring the Gender Gap in Identification: Policy Insights from 10 Countries
This 10-country study by the GSMA explores the intersection between cultural, social and policy barriers…
Digital Identity Opportunities in Zambia, Uganda, Sri-Lanka and Malawi
Over one billion people around the world, including more than 230 million women and girls…
Mobile-enabled energy for humanitarian contexts
This report by GSMA explores the case for pay-as-you-go solar home systems in Kakuma Refugee…
The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa
The mobile industry in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to scale rapidly, reaching 367 million subscribers in…
The Mobile Economy: India 2016
This report from the GSMA discusses the mobile economy in India. India boasts the second…
Driving a price revolution: Mobile money in international remittances
In August 2016, the GSMA commissioned an independent data collection exercise to assess the impact…
Decade Edition of the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money
With the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Financial Services now in its sixth…
APIs: A bridge between mobile operators and start-ups in emerging markets
In 2006, fewer than 400 public APIs were available globally. Ten years later there are…