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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An interview with the Ethical Tea Partnership: Jenny Costelloe, Executive Director & Liberal Seburikoko, Regional Director (Africa)
New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all.
CRS Commits to Increase Electronic Payments to Strengthen Local Economies…
The purpose of this working paper is to set out the key components and stakeholders in a digital payments ecosystem (DPE).
In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.
Our Peer-Exchange to Brazil was part of the Alliance’s response to the knowledge needs of member countries…
This paper, jointly released by the Better Than Cash Alliance and the World Bank, summarizes and analyzes the financial challenges faced by older adults.
Alliance Accelerates Work to Transition from Cash to Electronic Payments Worldwide…
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
This paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme.
India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance
This paper looks at the impact of shifting to digital payments in Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme.
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.
The paper presents use cases for digital financial services (DFS) along value chains across three broad categories- overcoming barriers to providing financial services, improving the efficiency of financial transactions, and improving market opportunities.
The report charts the story of mobile money covering a decade of progress, industry lessons,impact and the future of the industry.
This blog post was originally published on Gallup.com
Although cashless payment instruments have been available in Mexico for some time, their rate of adoption was not remarkably fast, until the last 15 years. This chapter seeks to document this phenomenon and discuss some hypotheses on why the adoption rate is still low.
The World Bank expects people to send USD$581 billion in remittances in 2014, through a network of banks and money transfer operators.