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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The Better Than Cash Alliance presents its most recent report, providing recommendations to support MSMEs and enable their transition into the digital payments ecosystem in Pakistan.
The challenges, opportunities, and priorities in designing effective tax and non-tax revenue payment digitization solutions.
Tax digitalization, when designed and implemented effectively, can deliver major benefits for society, reduce inequalities, and contribute to the financing of the SDGs.
Successful digitization of P2G payments and its widespread adoption by users is achievable - but depends on the alignment of various important factors.
The Alliance Learning Series is developed to promote a culture of active sharing of learnings with members and other key stakeholders.
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery
The “Digitizing Government Payments Amid COVID-19" series
On average government revenues on the continent account for 21.4% of fiscal policy spending but could digitisation of tax systems help widen this base?
This paper sets out pathways forward to help realize the full potential of digitalization, with specific and practical recommendations.
Mexico has been among the forerunners in tax digitalization, starting in the 1980s when it piloted digital Point of Sale (PoS) registration and invoicing.
This paper suggests pathways forward to help realize these benefits, with specific recommendations.
This paper, jointly released by the Better Than Cash Alliance and the World Bank, summarizes and analyzes the financial challenges faced by older adults.
This GSMA study shares lessons from Orange’s work in West and Central Africa on implementing Person-to-Government (P2G) payment strategies.
Joint report by the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Center for Global Development, and the Overseas Development Institute, building on work with the International Monetary Fund in 2017.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde is to be applauded for her recent leadership in the fight against corruption, and her recognition that there is an increasingly limited role for cash …
This IDRC and SIDA-funded policy paper looks at the state of Information and Communications Technologies in Uganda. Apart from other policy recommendations, it calls for addressing the issue of affordability of devices and data and revisiting the issue of social media and mobile money taxes.
In a bid to promote adoption of FASTag, e-toll collection system, the Indian Government is planning to impose a double toll fee if non-FASTag vehicles enter the FASTag lane.
This study analyzes whether mobile payments are still relevant for the fintech industry by comparing three mobile payment projects – Oi Paggo in Brazil, TCASH in Indonesia, and M-PESA in Kenya.