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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Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.
New report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains.
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
As the world gets a progress report from the World Bank, the Alliance outlines 10 key reasons to be optimistic about the journey toward full financial inclusion.
The impressive achievements of our Alliance members, working together with the Secretariat, are highlighted in our 2021 Annual Report.
A new animation and working paper, developed by the Alliance, seek to better explain inclusive digital payment ecosystems.
For stakeholders engaged in the shift from cash to electronic payments, there is an ever-present appetite for data on progress.
This report from Centre for Strategic and International Studies makes a strong case for digital payments for equity, development and security.
The presentation provides ideas for digital payments to replace cash as the most used mode of retail merchants worldwide.
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
Lessons from developing diagnostics and strategies with Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Philippines, and Senegal
Alliance’s work in action
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This Guidebook provides an easy-to-use tool to understand how digital finance is helping addressing some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and includes some interesting use cases from Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
New digitization study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.
The COVID-19 crisis is having a significant and widespread effect on global payments across sectors. The most striking and potentially lasting impact is an accelerating pace of change in the industry.
This blog post was originally published in Next Billion…