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Facebook's Libra may be quite attractive in developing countries

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
A customer and vendor exchange electronic money through a mobile phone in Uganda.Ndiwulira/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has taken a lot of criticism from Western government officials and media commentators – but it’s not meant for them. A major target market for the Libra is users in developing...

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