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@article{Suri2016TheLP,
  title={The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money},
  author={Tavneet Suri and William Jack},
  journal={Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={354},
  pages={1288 - 1292},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:42992837}
}

It is estimated that access to the Kenyan mobile money system M-PESA increased per capita consumption levels and lifted 194,000 households, or 2% of Kenyan households, out of poverty.

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