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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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.
Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
The International Fund for Agricultural Development joins Better Than Cash Alliance to bring financial inclusion to rural communities
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
By BTCA Communications Team…
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
Empowering People One Transaction at a Time: Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form “Better Than Cash Alliance” to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments
This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
In wealthy countries, most people conduct their financial activity in digital form; money and value is stored virtually and transferred instantaneously with a touch of a button.
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
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
Urgent measures needed to address climate vulnerability impacting 3.6 billion people, particularly women and marginalized groups.
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.
Wharton Business Radio hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the “Dollars and Change” podcast….
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.
This paper suggests policymakers and other stakeholders should leverage trends toward financially-inclusive e-payments as a means to achieve multiple potential objectives for bringing financial inlcusion to adolescent girls.
A case study on three countries Sweden, United States and India is conducted to survey variations in costs for cash and card instruments in economies that have varying extents of cash in cir…