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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This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…
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…
Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog
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.
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.
This blog post was originally published in Next Billion…
By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers promise a faster, more secure and more transparent (so less corruptible) means of getting help.
Below are the questions we often get asked about our Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines:…
The new Stanford Business “Blockchain for Social Impact" report is out! The most common use case among its sample of organizations is records and verification, whereas the challenges cited most often are regulatory. The interviewees reported that launching the project was harder than anticipated.
This paper identifies and discusses principles and applications of Blockchain that enhance trust, transparency, and auditability in Social Business (SB) activities. It outlines the challenges related to creating a native cryptocurrency for SB, and barriers to infrastructure and technology adoption by different SB stakeholders.
“Purpose This paper aims to identify, analyse and organise the literature about blockchains in supply chain management (SCM) context (blockchain–SCM integration) and proposes an agenda for …
This work provides a systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications across mul-tiple domains. The aim is to investigate the current state of blockchain technology and its appl…
This webinar is the second in the Global Learning Exchange Series on Digital Payments, hosted by the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the IFC/ILO Better Work Programme, and the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance.
¿Cómo ha proporcionado Colombia apoyo económico a través de transferencias financieras digitales a casi 3 millones de hogares gravemente afectados por la pandemia? ¿Qué medidas ha tomado el gobierno para llegar a más de 1 millón de hogares, que son usuarios por primera vez de dinero móvil?
For stakeholders engaged in the shift from cash to electronic payments, there is an ever-present appetite for data on progress.
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining the Better Than Cash Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.