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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Learn about the 9 principles and earn points toward becoming a Certified Digital Finance Practitioner
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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.
The Better Than Cash Alliance is introducing an occasional series on innovations that have the potential to reduce costs in digital payments. The first in this series is an article by Ryan Z…
Blockchain Series: Blog 5
The IWCA endorses UN Responsible Digital Payments as a game-changer for women at every step of the coffee supply chain.
India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
Building capacity within government agencies that champion digital payments
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
Blockchain Series: Blog 1…
Across the global policy community, the jury is now in about the power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion, particularly for women and the poor; improve efficiency and transpare…
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.
For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…