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 University of New South Wales paper proposes a framework – a Regulatory Diagnostic Toolkit (RDT) – designed to support financial regulators in emerging markets to advance their regulatory regimes for DFS.
In this report, McKinsey Global Institute discusses the opportunities and challenges in setting up a good digital ID system. It also features case studies on Nigeria, Ethiopia and India. …
In this report, Mastercard combines insights from industry players and shares 5 ‘markers’ to help with strategies to promote adoption of formal financial services.
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
Water providers are shifting to digital payments to reduce expenses and streamline delivery. In this report, CGAP and GSMA share lessons learned from 25 organizations, including the challeng…
Over 7.3 million women gained access to financial products from 2012 to 2018 due to policies informed by sex-disaggregated data. Read the CG Dev blog on why robust gender data is crucial for…
Here are highlights on how our global partnership ignited progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through shifting to digital payments.
Across the global policy community, the jury is now in about the power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion, particularly for women and the poor; improve efficiency and transpare…
It sets a model for an enabling environment for financial inclusion across five domains: 1. Government and Policy Support; 2. Stability and Integrity; 3. Products and Outlets; 4. Consumer Pr…
Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …
This article situates latest trends within the evolution of Indian and Mexican social policies and discusses how on one hand financial inclusion policies allow vulnerable populations to access new rights while resulting in new ways of controlling consumer behavior.
Wharton Business Radio hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the “Dollars and Change” podcast….
G20 finance ministers call for open and inclusive digital payments infrastructures
A report by the Better Than Cash Alliance for the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
In December 2017, there were over 2.9 million active agents and 690 million registered customer accounts worldwide. Primarily responsible for registering customer accounts, mobile money agen…
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