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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Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
Grameen Foundation Joins Better Than Cash Alliance; Pledges to Address Poverty by Shifting to Electronic Payments…
Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’…
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
Digital initiative aimed at helping world’s poor…
The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World…
ANTALYA, Turkey - How are phones and cards changing the ways the global poor access and manage their money, and what should governments and financial institutions do to ensure innovative pr…
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
Development Research Group When the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) was formed almost three years ago, about half of the world’s adult population had some type of bank account. Last week th…
Good news ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
Grameen Foundation became the newest member of the Better Than Cash Alliance by committing to continue transitioning to electronic payments through its mobile financial services and mobile agriculture efforts
A new Better Than Cash Alliance and World Bank paper outlines factors for the financial exclusion of the elderly and explores how digital financial technology can help governments better prepare for global aging challenges.
The latest edition of the World Development Report from the World Bank provides a blueprint on how to harness the power of data for development, to ensure no one is left behind.
Using various global datasets, this study quantifies the effect of financial inclusion and digital payments on income and individual government tax revenues to be an additional $4.1 trillion in the world economy.
The report illuminates trends shaping the future of commerce and provides insights from Visa’s third annual Future of Payments study based on 9,200 online surveys across 16 countries.
Today, over half of the world population lives in cities. By 2050, this number will increase to two-thirds. In this context, this study looks at the net benefits associated with adopting digital payments at the city-level.
This report explores implications of financial services’ digital transformation for market outcomes - and regulation and supervision - and how these interact.