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Financial Inclusion, Shocks, and Poverty

Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania

Olukorede Abiona and Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
Journal of Human Resources, March 2022, 57 (2) 435-464; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.2.1018-9796R1
Olukorede Abiona
Olukorede Abiona is a Research Fellow at CHERE, University of Technology Sydney, 123 Broadway NSW 2007, Australia.
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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Surrey, University Road, GU2 7JP Guildford, UK ().
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