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Mobile cell phones and poverty reduction : technology spending patterns and poverty level change among households in Uganda.

This paper exammes the spending behaviour of households with mobile phones in rural agricultural Uganda and whether such strategies such as substitutions have affected the well-being of these community members. According to the findings, rural households are willing to make sacrifices such as travel expenses and store-bought food budget in order to address the expenses of mobile phone services. While gender inequality through exacerbated asset control and mobile phone
inexperience drive further digital divide in this village, the proliferation of small businesses development encourages phone ownership for women. Such strategies to afford a mobile phone or mobile phone services are undertaken to help facilitate longterm
asset accumulation. For development studies, the analysis recommends a revised form of development thinking in a growing knowledge economy. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2007.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/2073
Date January 2007
CreatorsDiga, Kathleen.
ContributorsMay, Julian Douglas.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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