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(iv) Given the negative conditional effects, policy thresholds or minimum mobile money innovation levels needed to completely nullify the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty are provided: 27.666 (% age 15\u2009+) and 24.000 (% age 15\u2009+) of the mobile used to send money in the 50th and 75th quantiles, respectively and 16.272 (% age 15\u2009+) and 13.666 (% age 15\u2009+) of the mobile used to pay bills online in the 10th and 50th quantiles, respectively. 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