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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India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance
Joint post by Camilo Tellez-Merchan of Better than Cash Alliance and Vivek Belgavi of PwC India
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
El Gobierno de la India se une a la Alianza Better Than Cash de las Naciones Unidas para compartir los éxitos del programa de inclusión financiera más grande del mundo…
Lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal
Transportation Series: Blog 4…
Payday can be an ordeal for women garment workers in Bangladesh. Often, they must wait in long lines, carry wads of cash through crowded streets, or encounter a mother-in-law demanding money…
Aquino Admin Says ‘Digitisation’ a Priority Goal…
On 19 August 2015, the Reserve Bank of India approved licenses for eleven institutions to set up payment banks. The purpose was to have these banks further financial inclusion by providing s…
10 recommendations from civil society to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization and further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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.
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Scaling Digital Wages: An Opportunity for Garment Employees and Manufacturers…
Read about India’s transformational journey to scale responsible digital payments
Beneficiaries received electronic transfers via mobile savings accounts
Better Than Cash Alliance organized a peer exchange learning series to highlight the central and state government initiatives and facilitate peer learning to accelerate service delivery and digital financial inclusion.
There is growing consensus in the humanitarian community that cash (digital or physical) – as opposed to delivery of food and materials – is often the best way to help communities bounce back from crisis.