Designing payment models for the poor

• Main Authors: UPPARI, Bhavani Shanker, ZORC, Sasa
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: poverty; access to basic services; energy; clean water; cooking gas; pay-as-you-go; PAYGo; payment flexibility; payment incentives; optimal contract; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7438; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8437/viewcontent/Payment_Models_for_the_Poor.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Several basic services, such as energy, clean water and cooking gas, are currently out of reach for millions of people living in poverty. There has been an emergence of private firms that offer these services by, for example, selling solar home systems or clean cooking packages with remote lockout c...