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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One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
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….
By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
The International Fund for Agricultural Development joins Better Than Cash Alliance to bring financial inclusion to rural communities
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.
Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Originally published on CGAP.org
This review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme shares best practices and challenges from initiatives implemented in areas related to productive capacity, infrastructure and energy, agriculture, food security and nutrition and rural development, economy, trade, etc
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.
The principles, endorsed in 2016 during the G20 Chinese Presidency, catalyzes the adoption of digital approaches to achieve G20’s goals of financial inclusion, inclusive growth and increasing women’s economic participation.
The report identifies eight good practices for engaging with clients who are sending or receiving digital payments and who have previously been financially excluded or underserved.
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
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Wharton Business Radio hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the “Dollars and Change” 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.
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…