Hope or Hype? Five Obstacles to Mobile Money Innovations for Youth Financial Services

policy paper | September 10, 2013

Jamie Zimmerman

Julia Arnold

By synthesizing the current opportunities and obstacles to using mobile-based tools to advance youth financial access and by assessing current opinion among practitioners, this paper examines whether mobile solutions offer the youth financial inclusion field immense hope, or just hype.

Jamie Zimmerman
Julia Arnold

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