Obviously not Bitcoin
J.A. Terranson
measl at mfn.org
Fri Jun 24 13:32:19 PDT 2011
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Nelson wrote:
> Heard Rajiv Shah, president of the United States Agency for
> International Development (USAID), on NPR this morning say that as the
> financial infrastructure was lacking in Afghanistan, it was non-trivial
> to pay people. So they had a couple of pilot programmes where people
> were "paid on their mobile phones".
>
> What do you think this entails? The lack of infrastructure that makes
> Western style payment possible, would also make a mobile phone solution
> difficult (you have to use something accessible via your phone, in order
> to get afghanis in your hand in some local place).
Some kind of hawala scheme?
//Alif
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