Workers within that industry have found a number of advantages to being paid over smartphones. In Zimbabwe, the unemployment rate in formal industries has been estimated to be as high as 90 percent, and an informal economy – including those in the sex trade – have now been making use of the EcoCash mobile payments system to be able to accept transactions more safely and securely than other methods. There are a number of reasons that sex workers have found that using smartphone payments is a good option. According to…
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