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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What four factors determine the digital money readiness of an economy? What measures can our member governments take to improve their ability to adopt digital payments widely? Read the lates…
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
Here are highlights on how our global partnership ignited progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through shifting to digital payments.
New digitization study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.
In this 4-part blog series, we examine key aspects of the transportation sector: tolling, urban transit, and ride-sharing with a focus on emerging economies.
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…
Transportation Series: Blog 3
Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …
MIT Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield talks with Wole Coaxum, MoCaFi founder and chief executive officer, Shamina Singh, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth president; and Tidhar Wald, Better Than Cash Alliance head of government relations and public policy, at the Bloomberg Sooner Than You Think technology summit in Brooklyn.
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.
G20 finance ministers call for open and inclusive digital payments infrastructures
A report by the Better Than Cash Alliance for the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
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.
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
The wins our Alliance had in transition to digital payments
In a significant step towards integrating social benefits into business strategy, the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance announced its newest member: Unilever.
Today, over half of the world population lives in cities. By 2050, this number will increase to two-thirds. In this context, this study looks at the net benefits associated with adopting digital payments at the city-level.