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Online Remittances: Closing The Gender Gap
According to the U.N., remittance sending behaviour of migrant women often involves a higher financial cost as they tend to send smaller amounts of their income more frequently and are subjected to paying more in transactions fees.
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- Finance
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MTN Adds Vodacom Tanzania to its Cross Border Money Remittance Service
The partnership sees MTN Uganda adding Vodacom Tanzania to the list of telecom partners with whom customers can do mobile money transactions in the East African region.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Intra-African Remittance Market Set to Soar in 2020
The World Bank estimates that migrant workers within Africa send remittances in excess of $14 billion dollars each year, and in 2018 intra-African remittances represented 20% of global remittance flows according to Ecobank Group.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Remittances: Moving People Move Money
New innovations in digital technology are rapidly changing the global remittance landscape.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: WorldRemit Partners with Wizall Money to Launch its First Mobile Money Transfer Service to Senegal
Using the WorldRemit app, customers in over 50 countries can now send money instantly to over 60,000 Wizall Money mobile accounts in Senegal.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: WorldRemit Announces Global Remittance Partnership With Alipay
WorldRemit has announced a partnership with Alipay, the world's leading payment and lifestyle platform, enabling consumers to use the WorldRemit app or website for cross-border remittances to the Alipay app, bringing more convenient and inclusive transfer services to users around the world.
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- Finance
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Digital Platforms for ‘Gig Economy’ Workers: An Intriguing Model Gains Traction in Africa
The government of Senegal has been working diligently to foster high-tech innovation in its economy – but there's one area in particular need of a digital upgrade. Researchers Jessica Wallach and Jill Lagos Shemin explore why the greatest potential impact of the digital revolution in Senegal may involve helping informal workers in the "gig economy" leverage digital platforms to find work.
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- Technology
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Vodacom Tanzania and WorldRemit Launch Mobile Money Transfers to M-Pesa Accounts
Using the WorldRemit app, Tanzanians living abroad in over 50 countries can send money home and the new service increases convenience for recipients in Tanzania who can receive international money transfers directly to their phones, without the need for a bank account or internet connection.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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