The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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This paper provides frameworks for understanding where the value-creation elements of DPI originate and how to design a DPI governance that maximises public value.
A list of examples of how digital public infrastructure (DPI) can accelerate the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The World Economic Forum and IDB Lab explore how digital payments in Latin America & the Caribbean can continue to evolve in an open, inclusive and safe manner.
This WEF report explores how redefining and measuring the way digital payments interact with one another can help drive economic growth and financial inclusion.
The twelfth annual Financial Access Survey (FAS) reveals considerable expansion in the usage of digital financial services during COVID-19.
Innovating Digital Financial Services for Posts
This inaugural study from the Tech for Good Institute presents data-based insights and public-private perspectives on how to support the platform economy’s growth in Southeast Asia while mitigating its risks.
A digital strategy for Ethiopia inclusive prosperity
In this report, the relationship between financial infrastructure and the performance of disbursement programs in their design ambition and how well they delivered is assessed.
“The study finds that the type of mobile coverage provided has a significant effect on the DFS UI and type of mobile phone that can be used for DFS access.Feature phones and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transactions continue to be the choice for the vast majority users.”
This ADBI working paper discusses measures to foster digital financial innovation in Indonesia.
This paper explores economic informality and how it relates to digital financial inclusion. It focuses specifically on the potential role that digital financial services–including those accessed through mobile phones and the internet can play in encouraging businesses to formalize their operations.
This IMF brief takes a first stab at tackling the questions surrounding the rise of new forms of digital money.
Why should retailers shift to digital payments? An average digital payments user of Grab, a ride-hailing service, makes twice as many transactions than those who use cash and is 30% more lik…
The paper examines the effects of mobile money as financial technology and service innovation on consumer demand, connecting the effects to the fast evolving mobile technologies (from 1G to 4G).
This report lays out the principles for a new digital economy for MENA that embraces innovation and entrepreneurship, youth and women economic empowerment, rekindling the role of State, etc.
The paper suggests a pragmatic approach for Bangladesh to financially include the underserved through Digital financial services (DFS) by promoting interoperability.
This study shares some best practices in the use of digital technologies by highly innovative fintech firms in areas that could be of use to MFIs in context of Europe.
This paper provides examples of how digitization in Kenya has supported the economy via a retail electronic payments system, financial inclusion, increased financial sector vibrancy, and pushed GDP growth with it.
This chapter provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and discusses the empirical evidence on how the use of formal financial services significantly contribute to inclusive growth and economic development.