ICT for development

Impact of mobile phones on SME supply chains in Nigeria

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Can mobile telephony improve commercial supply-chains in developing countries? Informational challenges – absence, uncertainty, asymmetry – shape the working of markets and commerce in many developing countries. This paper is a case study of the impact of mobile telephony on SMEs in the clothweaving sector in Nigeria.

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