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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The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) explores improvements in women entrepreneur’s financial and economic opportunities in developing countries.
The McKinsey Global Institute has mapped 15 gender-equality indicators for 95 countries and finds that 40 of them have high or extremely high levels of gender inequality on at least half of the indicators.
Alliance’s work in action
Urgent measures needed to address climate vulnerability impacting 3.6 billion people, particularly women and marginalized groups.
How digitization of payments, transfers, and remittances contributes to the G20 goals of economic growth, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment
Guest post by Shireen Santosham, GSMA Connected Women
New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all.
The Alliance and the Gates Foundation propose digital financial services as a means for this growth to be broad-based and inclusive, especially for to women.
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…
Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
by Tidar Wald, Government and Corporate Relations Specialist at Better Than Cash Alliance…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
The Better Than Cash Alliance, hosted by UNCDF, gathered with colleagues at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Council of Governors Annual Meeting last month in Urubamba, Peru….
This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…