Mobile Phones, Household Welfare and Women's Empowerment

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Tác giả: Monzur Hossain

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 731.55 *Mobiles and stabiles

Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2021

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Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 327966

 Using household survey data from off-grid regions of rural Bangladesh, this study attempts to assess the impacts of mobile phone use on household welfare and women's empowerment. Using two propensity score-based weighted regressions (IPW and AIPW), this study finds that mobile phone use increases household income (3 to 10 percent) from different sources, such as small businesses and remittances
  improves women's empowerment
  and facilitates consumption smoothing during periods of shocks. Thus, favorable policies on investment in mobile telephone technologies, tariffs on talk time and internet usage, and mobile innovations, such as mobile financial services could reduce communication bottlenecks and digital divide in rural lagging regions that will help achieve a balanced regional development. Simultaneously, policies to avoid adverse impact of mobile phone usage should also be in place.
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