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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This two-minute video from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance is about Romita, a widow in the North East of India who opened a bank account to receive a government loan for a power loom.
Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.
Real-world experiences from micro-merchants across ASEAN that highlight the factors that build or erode trust in DFS.
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.
A founding member of the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Philippines has paved the path in transitioning to responsible digital payments, providing many key lessons and insights for other cou…
A guide and self-assessment tool for policymakers in various stages of digital development.
The National Digital Payments Roadmap provides a high-level plan to expand the adoption of responsible digital payments in a way that is agile, inclusive, and helps achieve the SDGs.
Measuring progress to scale: Responsible digital payments in Bangladesh
Taking stock of the digital payments ecosystem with a 7-point action plan to expand the merchant acceptance network
This highlights report captures the progress of payments digitalization in the country in 2019 and the first half of 2020.
This paper sets out pathways forward to help realize the full potential of digitalization, with specific and practical recommendations.
This report is the first of its kind to document key data points on the costs and benefits of wage digitization from a factory perspective.
This report examines two of China’s most far-reaching applications – WeChat and Alipay – and explores their role in the development of one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated digital payments ecosystems.
Leading apparel companies have collaborated with each other on the BSR Herfinance program to improve worker well-being through payroll digitization.
The National Dairy Development Board digitized its payments to dairy farmers – unlocking significant business and social benefits.