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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In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.
Lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal
What being gender intentional has taught us about advancing digital financial equality for women.
Lessons from developing diagnostics and strategies with Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Philippines, and Senegal
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
A third of adults struggle to get by without basic financial services to protect against hardship and save for the future. Ruth Goodwin-Groen, of the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance, expl…
A round-up of some of our biggest successes in 2016
During this year’s European Development Days (EDDs), digital technologies and the digitization of payments emerged as key enablers for the implementation of the SDGs.
The ability to make and receive payments electronically has emerged, in recent years, as a technology hero during natural disasters and health pandemics. At a time when more people than ever…
The President of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, as well as Ministers and other high level figures from Peru, Belgium, Bangladesh, Colombia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and S…
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.