Africa: Mobile money taxes risk driving poor out of digital economy
KENT MENSAH and NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how moves to roll out an e-levy on mobile money transactions in cash-strapped African nations, could hurt the poorest…
Red Cross boosts disaster-prone communities with blockchain “cash”
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation In Kenya’s poor rural and slum communities, residents have lots to sell – from home-grown tomatoes to their labour hoeing fields or teaching children – but few people have enough cash to buy the goods and services, reducing the incentive to produce more. Barter works for some exchanges, but keeping track […]