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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A report by the CALP Network analyzing the trends, challenges, and opportunities of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in humanitarian aid.
Cash transfer programs can have significant impacts on economic growth, poverty reduction, and social protection.
A new vision for the implementation of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in contexts of human mobility.
World Bank’s Global Findex is a definitive source on access to financial services. 2021 findings show the account ownership gender gap has narrowed globally.
This report explores implications of financial services’ digital transformation for market outcomes - and regulation and supervision - and how these interact.
The World Bank analyzes how COVID-19 is affecting emerging economies and how to mitigate interconnected financial risks to achieve an equitable recovery.
This guidance note examines key aspects of central bank digital currency (CBDC) design and implementation, and implications for financial systems worldwide.
Catalyzing an ecosystem for action to address the impacts of climate change among the world’s most vulnerable
The latest edition of the World Development Report from the World Bank provides a blueprint on how to harness the power of data for development, to ensure no one is left behind.
In this report, the relationship between financial infrastructure and the performance of disbursement programs in their design ambition and how well they delivered is assessed.
This brief highlights the role of cash transfers and digital distribution as a part of COVID-19 response in Colombia.
This report understands the lived experiences of Concern Burundi’s CVA recipients who are receiving mobile money-enable humanitarian aid.
This article outlines ways governments can step in to ensure mobile services help the world’s most vulnerable communities fight the pandemic and access essential support.
This research focuses on disability, using human-centred design methods to better understand how refugees and Kenyans with visual and hearing impairments in Nairobi use mobile technology and potential opportunities that it could provide.
This guidance note outlines the most significant challenges that MNOs face (or likely to face) in the context of supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world and offers relevant recommendations to governments on how to help address or mitigate these challenges.
This research offers evidence to help MNOs make informed decisions about engaging in partnerships with humanitarian organisations, and to help humanitarian actors better understand their MNO partners and build successful long-term partnerships.
This paper explores economic informality and how it relates to digital financial inclusion. It focuses specifically on the potential role that digital financial services–including those accessed through mobile phones and the internet can play in encouraging businesses to formalize their operations.
This report by GSMA and UNHCR looks at the ways in which refugees are using mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators.
New GSMA and UNHCR report looks at the ways in which refugees are using their mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators. It identifies affordability, literacy, digital skills, and charging as the main barriers to mobile phone ownership and mobile internet usage.
The UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation released this report. It highlights the need for inclusivity and protection of human rights to ensure a safe digital future for all and shares 5 key recommendations.