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Country Diagnostic: Senegal

This diagnostic report shows that Senegal has a strong potential for digitizing payments.
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Industry Report

Fintech for Financial Inclusion: A Framework for Digital Financial Transformation-A Report to the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)

The paper outlines potential for growth for FinTech for financial inclusion while emphasising on the need for regulatory approaches , citing some successful cases from India , Kenya and China.
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Industry Report

The Impact of Formal Savings on Salaried Workers’ Spending and Borrowing in Eastern Ghana

This J-PAL study looks at the impact of commitment savings linked to electronic salary payments. While the results varied for different users, the research highlights the importance of using…
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Industry Report

Distribution 2.0: The future of mobile money agent distribution networks

In December 2017, there were over 2.9 million active agents and 690 million registered customer accounts worldwide. Primarily responsible for registering customer accounts, mobile money agen…
Industry Report

Building inclusive payment ecosystems in Tanzania and Ghana

At the heart of this financial transformation is the rise of digital payments services through which nearly any individual or business can send or receive money in real time for almost any p…
Industry Report

Digitizing Uganda’s Education Sector with Mobile Payment Platform

A new payment platform launched by Mastercard, UNICEF and the Ministry of Education in Uganda is gaining traction, reaching over 130,000 registered students in just one year….
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Alliance Report

The Future of Supply Chains: Why Companies are Digitizing Payments

New report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains.
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Alliance Report

10 reasons to be optimistic that full financial inclusion is possible through digital payments

As the world gets a progress report from the World Bank, the Alliance outlines 10 key reasons to be optimistic about the journey toward full financial inclusion.
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Industry Report

Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that default enro…
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Industry Report

Bargaining to work: the effect of female autonomy on female labour supply

The use of digital cards for government safety net transfers enhanced women’s decision-making power in the household and led to a 92% increase in women’s likelihood of participating in the l…
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Industry Report

2017 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money

The mobile money industry is now processing a billion dollars a day and generating direct revenues of over $2.4 billion. With 690 million registered accounts worldwide, mobile money has evol…
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Industry Report

One token changing the game for sustainable rural water supply in Tanzania

A water payment’s digitization project resulted in tripling water utility payments and reducing water collection waiting time from 3 hour to 10 minutes on average within a year, benefitting …
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Industry Report

Mobile banking: A potential catalyst for financial inclusion and growth in Pakistan

This paper traces the history of mobile banking in Pakistan, studies various models of mobile banking and assesses its current state.

Industry Report

New Public Management Issues in Zimbabwe

This chapter discusses the ecological contexts, processes, and trajectory of New Public Management (NPM) in Zimbabwe.

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Industry Report

Growth of mobile financial services key learnings from literature, industry analysis and cases

This paper includes an extensive literature review on Mobile financial Services (MFS)and provides an overview of existing MFS landscape.

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Alliance Report

Country Diagnostic: Ghana

This Diagnostic Report shows Ghana has taken important steps toward digitizing its economy, and has several of the building blocks of an inclusive digital ecosystem already in place.