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Alliance Report

The Opportunities of Digitizing Payments

How digitization of payments, transfers, and remittances contributes to the G20 goals of economic growth, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Ideas & Updates

Toward a cash-free world with the Global Findex

Development Research Group When the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) was formed almost three years ago, about half of the world’s adult population had some type of bank account. Last week th…
Ideas & Updates

An infrastructure approach to improving Financial Inclusion

The Better Than Cash Alliance is introducing an occasional series on innovations that have the potential to reduce costs in digital payments. The first in this series is an article by Ryan Z…
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Ideas & Updates

Malawi takes key step to advance digital payments and drive inclusive growth

Government, private sector, mobile operators and development organizations convene to establish a plan for the future…
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Ideas & Updates

A means to an end: The post-2015 future of financial inclusion

Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
Ideas & Updates

Massive drop in number of unbanked, says new World Bank Findex Report

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2015 —Between 2011 and 2014, 700 million people became account holders at banks, other financial institutions, or mobile money service providers, and the number of “unb…
Ideas & Updates

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…
Ideas & Updates

Papua New Guinea commits to digitizing all government payments

PNG’s Ministries of Finance and Treasury endorse Better Than Cash Alliance membership
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Ideas & Updates

Going rural with digital financial services

When a family member first told Mary that she could use her mobile phone to store her money, she felt that she had finally found a safe place to keep the earnings from her vegetable sales….
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Ideas & Updates

Mercy Corps recognized for providing emergency e-transfers to 25,000 Typhoon survivors in the ‪‎Philippines‬ ‬‬‬‬‬

Beneficiaries received electronic transfers via mobile savings accounts
Toolkit

Business

Learn about how businesses like yours are benefiting from digital payments and how you can cut costs and improve efficiency.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Ideas & Updates

Digital payments can empower women

Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog

Ideas & Updates

Two challenges to help two billion reach financial security

Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
Industry Report

Case Study: Shifting Food Assistance in Kenya to E-Payments

This CGAP case study discusses the program elements of the World Food Programme’s Cash for Assets pilot in Kenya, as well as the design and implementation process, the experiences of stakeho…