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.
The Government of Indonesia, with the Indonesian cocoa sector and the Better Than Cash Alliance has conducted a first-of-its-kind sizing exercise to assess opportunities for digital financial inclusion for smallholder cocoa farmers.
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This guidance note examines key aspects of central bank digital currency (CBDC) design and implementation, and implications for financial systems worldwide.
The G2PX initiative brings expertise across sectors to contribute to the broader agenda of improving government-to-person payments through digitization.
A new Center for Global Development policy paper explores the linkages between digitalization of payments and effective PFM systems.
Full financial inclusion is possible through digital payments
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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…
Using various global datasets, this study quantifies the effect of financial inclusion and digital payments on income and individual government tax revenues to be an additional $4.1 trillion in the world economy.
Today, over half of the world population lives in cities. By 2050, this number will increase to two-thirds. In this context, this study looks at the net benefits associated with adopting digital payments at the city-level.
The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk.
This report provides insights from the Digital Money Index, which tracks the development of digital money readiness in 84 countries. It shows a 5.5% improvement in overall digital money readiness over the last five years.