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New United Nations Study Maps Top 10 Ways Governments and Companies Can Create Digital Economies

For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…
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New United Nations Study: Digital payments could boost tax revenue by nearly US$500 million each year and drive economic modernization in Tanzania

Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth.
© © United Nations Foundation
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Uruguay makes great strides toward the universalization of access to financial services

The government joins the United Nations-based alliance of governments, companies and international organizations that works to accelerate the move toward digitization of payments…
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Cashless Nigeria: Facilitating the Transition to Digital Payments

The emergence of Nigeria as a regional economic powerhouse has presented a challenge for Nigerian policymakers: how to convert Nigeria’s growth at the macro level into greater financial inclusion, so that the rising economic tide can benefit more people.
© photo from GSMA.com
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Cashless Nigeria – Leading by example

As Nigeria rolls out one of the developing world’s most ambitious policy platforms to boost digital payments and drive greater financial inclusion, it’s important to take stock of the country’s progress to date, so that policy-makers around the world can learn from Nigeria’s experiences.
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India Announces New Partnership to Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Everyone

Government of India joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to share success stories from the world’s largest financial inclusion programme…
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Cashing out: Ruth Goodwin Groen in The Economist Intelligence Unit

Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…
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In line with strategy to mature into an emerging economy, Nepal joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
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Digitization of payments in Mexico saves billions

The Mexican government is saving an estimated US$ 1.27 billion per year, or 3.3 percent of its total expenditure, on wages, pensions and social transfers. How? By digitizing and centralizing…
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Build on progress made in Colombia’s shift to electronic payments, says Better Than Cash study

Building an inclusive financial ecosystem is critical to accelerating the shift away from cash in Colombia and Latin America…
© ©Colin Crowley, Creative Commons
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Is Cash the Enemy of Financial Inclusion?

The Better Than Cash Alliance, hosted by UNCDF, gathered with colleagues at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Council of Governors Annual Meeting last month in Urubamba, Peru….