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From carrying wads of cash to mobile money
Myanmar citizens are getting safer financial services
Published Wed, Sep 21, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Yangon
CARRYING her wages in wads of cash across Myanmar was once a risky, onerous but unavoidable ritual for maid Khin Myint Oo.
But now, she just pings off a text to move the money to her children back home as mobile banking sweeps into a country whose people have for decades been locked out of basic financial services.
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