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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A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to prioritize women’s digital financial inclusion
The IWCA endorses UN Responsible Digital Payments as a game-changer for women at every step of the coffee supply chain.
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
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.
Urgent measures needed to address climate vulnerability impacting 3.6 billion people, particularly women and marginalized groups.
New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all.
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…
Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
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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….
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
Blockchain Series: Blog 4
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
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By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde is to be applauded for her recent leadership in the fight against corruption, and her recognition that there is an increasingly limited role for cash …
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.
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
By BTCA Communications Team…