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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Blockchain Series: Blog 5
Blockchain Series: Blog 6
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde is to be applauded for her recent leadership in the fight against corruption, and her recognition that there is an increasingly limited role for cash …
Communiqué de presse de l’Agence de la Couverture Maladie Universelle du Sénégal (ACMU)…
Kenyan AgTech company, Virtual City, has created a mobile-based tool called Agrimanagr that enables digitization of dairy value chain. Watch the video to learn more.
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining the Better Than Cash Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
New digitization study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.
This study investigates whether strengthening mobile money ecosystems around PNG’s resource regions can improve the distribution of compensation and benefits payments for local communities; Enhance social license for resources companies; and catalyze financial inclusion efforts.
Across the global policy community, the jury is now in about the power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion, particularly for women and the poor; improve efficiency and transpare…
Digital Financial Services (DFS) is a relatively new, low-cost means of digital access to transactional financial services. Often termed ‘mobile money’ or ‘mobile financial services,’ DFS is…
Transportation Series: Blog 1 (Introduction)
Transportation Series: Blog 3
Media release by the Government of Senegal, the Better Than Cash Alliance and MM4P…
Communiqué de presse du Gouvernement du Sénégal, l’Alliance Better Than Cash et MM4P…
In a first study of its kind, data from nearly 3,000 factories across 58 countries, reveals that paying workers digitally correlates positively with better working conditions.
New data gathered from the Higg Index from 3,000 factories in 58 countries
Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …
As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the SDGs.
By Alfred Akibo-Betts and Tenzin Keyzom Massally
In Addis Ababa, the vibrant Ethiopian capital, lies a busy Somali community market where Bisharo runs a small shop.