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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How digitization of payments, transfers, and remittances contributes to the G20 goals of economic growth, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
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…
Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
PNG’s Ministries of Finance and Treasury endorse Better Than Cash Alliance membership
Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development joins Better Than Cash Alliance to bring financial inclusion to rural communities
The Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) is supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) work with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams.
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda. …
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.
As part of its massive humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rolling out an innovative electronic voucher programme in Lebanon that wil…
It’s hard to imagine a more explosive, transformative, and empowering trend than the growth of the mobile phone sector in Africa.
Kenya is moving towards emerging market status and the government’s focused strategy of creating an electronic payments economy is contributing to its growth. During a reception hosted by th…
Grameen Foundation Joins Better Than Cash Alliance; Pledges to Address Poverty by Shifting to Electronic Payments…