Mobile phones pull 200,000 households out of poverty


The Standard | by Macharia Kamau

Thanks to the mobile phone, thousands of people have gotten out extreme poverty in Kenya over the last decade.

A new report by the GSM Association – the global lobby for telecommunication service providers – says more than 200,000 households have been lifted out of poverty largely because they own a mobile phone.

“In Kenya, access to mobile money has lifted two per cent of households (almost 200,000 households) out of poverty…

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