{"id":4983,"date":"2013-02-19T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2013-02-19T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T08:48:57","slug":"microloans-via-mobile-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/microloans-via-mobile-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Microloans Via Mobile Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"columns\">\n<div id=\"column-content\"><!-- Create left column on search pages --><\/p>\n<div>Want to get some cash at automated teller machines in Nairobi? Don\u2019t be surprised by the guards with machine guns. ATMs attract plenty of muggers and pickpockets. \u00a0Unsurprisingly, cashless transactions have been catching on fast in Nairobi and elsewhere in Africa. Microfinance organisations were among the pioneers. In Kenya, for instance, they started using M-PESA, the popular mobile money service, to hand out loans to small-time businesspeople in 2008, soon after its launch. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/schumpeter\/2013\/02\/microfinance?fsrc=nlw|newe|2-18-2013|5048482|85786623|NA\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4984\" alt=\"mobile money\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mobile-money-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mobile-money-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mobile-money-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mobile-money.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get some cash at automated teller machines in Nairobi? Don\u2019t be surprised by the guards with machine guns. ATMs attract plenty of muggers and pickpockets. \u00a0Unsurprisingly, cashless transactions have been catching on fast in Nairobi and elsewhere in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/microloans-via-mobile-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}