The article uses a conceptual framework to review empirical evidence and some 180 articles
related to the opportunities and threats of Big Data Analytics for international development …

Mobile money is a recent innovation that provides financial transaction services via mobile
phone, including to the unbanked global poor. The technology has spread rapidly in the …

The widespread growth of information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs) in rural
areas of develo** countries offers new opportunities to provide more timely and low‐cost …

Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in develo** countries; Internet and broadband
access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) …

In this paper, we review some advances made recently in the study of mobile phone
datasets. This area of research has emerged a decade ago, with the increasing availability …

Poverty is one of the most important determinants of adverse health outcomes globally, a
major cause of societal instability and one of the largest causes of lost human potential …

Accurate and timely estimates of population characteristics are a critical input to social and
economic research and policy. In industrialized economies, novel sources of data are …

Agricultural extension in the Global South can benefit greatly from the use of modern
information and communication technologies (ICT). Yet, despite two decades of promising …

Human mobility is a key component of large-scale spatial-transmission models of infectious
diseases. Correctly modeling and quantifying human mobility is critical for improving …

Mobile financial services such as M-PESA in Kenya are said to promote inclusion. Yet only
7.6 per cent of the Kenyans in the 2013 Financial Inclusion Insights dataset have ever used …