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.
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…
With 180 million unbanked people, Indonesia is one of the most valuable untapped digital payments markets in the Asia Pacific region. According to a Think with Google paper, women aged 25-34 will be the key to enabling adoption in the country.
Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
Joins UN-based Better than Cash Alliance to Promote Financial Inclusion and Greater Supply Chain Transparency and Efficiency…
Dhaka, November 20, 2019 - Media release by Government of Bangladesh: Building on what has been achieved so far, the government and the private sector have committed to working together to…
Government of Pakistan joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to create inclusive economic growth and a more efficient market structure…
Leading apparel companies have collaborated with each other on the BSR Herfinance program to improve worker well-being through payroll digitization.
Leading brands call on other companies and suppliers in Bangladesh to grasp the opportunity to drive inclusion, efficiency, and transparency through wage digitization…
Scaling Digital Wages: An Opportunity for Garment Employees and Manufacturers…
New report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains.
Bangladesh commits to further national financial inclusion by accelerating the transition to digital payments…
This paper suggests policymakers and other stakeholders should leverage trends toward financially-inclusive e-payments as a means to achieve multiple potential objectives for bringing financial inlcusion to adolescent girls.
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.
Government of Bangladesh shifted to digital payments to transfer education stipends directly to mobile phone accounts of nearly 13 million mothers. In this report, CGDev takes stock of how t…
The paper suggests a pragmatic approach for Bangladesh to financially include the underserved through Digital financial services (DFS) by promoting interoperability.
The global economy is experiencing important technological shifts, with the rise of digital technology a key driver. This can be seen today in the rapid growth of the digital economy, broadl…
This book features case studies from India demonstrating approaches of problem solving, enhancing quality family planning care at the grass-roots level and facilitates advocacy, strengthening programme design and enhancing competency as well as orienting the healthcare system.