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Mobile money as an interface between finance and livelihood - Sibel Kusimba, Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Financial Revolution, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2021, 222 pp., $28 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-503-61441-3

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Sibel Kusimba, Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Financial Revolution, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2021, 222 pp., $28 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-503-61441-3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Jürgen Schraten
Jürgen Schraten*
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University of Giessen, Germany
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Corresponding author: Jürgen Schraten, Department of Sociology, University of Giessen, Karl-Gloeckner-Str. 21E, 35394 Giessen, Germany. Email: juergen.schraten@sowi.uni-giessen.de.
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Finance and Society , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , 2021 , pp. 167 - 170
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