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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From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
This paper suggests policymakers and other stakeholders should leverage trends toward financially-inclusive e-payments as a means to achieve multiple potential objectives for bringing financial inlcusion to adolescent girls.
New report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains.
The report provides evidence on how financial inclusion facilitates various Sustainable Development Goals and highlughts how governments have been able to significantly reduce cost and leakages.
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.
An interview with the Ethical Tea Partnership: Jenny Costelloe, Executive Director & Liberal Seburikoko, Regional Director (Africa)
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Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the SDGs.
Empowering People One Transaction at a Time: Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form “Better Than Cash Alliance” to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’…
In wealthy countries, most people conduct their financial activity in digital form; money and value is stored virtually and transferred instantaneously with a touch of a button.
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
This is the fourth in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members. These highlights capture the innovative work by governments, businesses and development organizations to fulfill their commitment to transition from cash to digital payments.
Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…
Originally published on CGAP.org