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 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.
By BTCA Communications Team…
This blog post was originally published on Gallup.com
Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…
How digitization of payments, transfers, and remittances contributes to the G20 goals of economic growth, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment
Development Research Group When the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) was formed almost three years ago, about half of the world’s adult population had some type of bank account. Last week th…
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers promise a faster, more secure and more transparent (so less corruptible) means of getting help.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is pleased to join the Better Than Cash Alliance, in support of our commitment to provide essential services within the first 72 hours of crisis.
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
Join the Better Than Cash Alliance and our partners for an online discussion about safety and transparency in digital payments.
This CGAP Focus Note presents the evidence gained from a comprehensive study of the experiences in developing and implementing e-payment schemes linked to financial inclusion in four lower-i…