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Ethiopia’s National Digital Payments Strategy 2021-2024

An inclusive digital payment ecosystem is a key enabler to make Digital Ethiopia a reality by 2025 and advance the Sustainable Development Goals

Looking Ahead - Ethiopia launches new digital payments strategy to catalyze inclusive growth

To speed up Ethiopia’s journey towards digital transformation, the Government of Ethiopia is launching today the first-ever digital payments strategy.

E-money, Financial Inclusion and Mobile Money Tax in Sub-Saharan African Mobile Networks

The paper studies the incidence of new mobile money excise duties on the adoption of electronic money.

Maximizing Government Cost Savings

Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery

COVID-19 Payments: Managing Risks, Ensuring Women’s Inclusion, and Communicating Clearly

IFC: Women and e-commerce in Africa

In Africa, the number of online shoppers has increased by an average of 18% every year since 2014. IFC’s report shows that closing earnings gaps between women and men on e-commerce platforms could add over $280 billion to the value of Africa’s e-commerce market.

UNECA and Better Than Cash Alliance have partnered to launch pan-African peer exchange series on responsible digital payments

The “Digitizing Government Payments Amid COVID-19" series

Ethiopia: Eca Appreciates Digital Business Amid Covid-19

West Africa launches new payments digitization agenda

New report: Worker payments digitization for economic recovery and decent work.

How digital wage payments can deepen social inclusion

Digitizing workers’ payments for economic recovery and decent work Example: Senegal

This study presents a unique perspective, comparing concrete experiences from large companies to small- and medium-sized businesses.

West Africa launches new payments digitization agenda

Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)

L’Afrique de l’Ouest lance un nouvel agenda de numérisation des paiements

Communiqué de presse de Better Than Cash Alliance, la Banque mondiale et l’Agence Nationale des Statistiques du Sénégal (ANSD)

Comment améliorer les conditions de vie et de travail des éleveurs avec la digitalisation de la paie?

BEYOND CHOCOLATE: What agribusiness can learn from Ghana’s cocoa sector shift to digital payments

Philippine Central Banker Targets Street Stalls in E-Money Push

FEATURED: Celebrating Leading Women in Rwanda’s e-Commerce Space

Government of India, FICCI, and UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance come together for responsible merchant digitization in the North East, Himalayan Regions and Aspirational Districts