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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Better Than Cash Alliance organized a peer exchange learning series to highlight the central and state government initiatives and facilitate peer learning to accelerate service delivery and digital financial inclusion.
Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery
Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)
Communiqué de presse de Better Than Cash Alliance, la Banque mondiale et l’Agence Nationale des Statistiques du Sénégal (ANSD)
Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance is part of stimulating more innovation and financial inclusion for smallholders
Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
In this report, the relationship between financial infrastructure and the performance of disbursement programs in their design ambition and how well they delivered is assessed.
CSS is thus strongly committed to providing high-quality services to its workers and their families, both formal and informal financial services.
In 2020 Kossam SDE successfully launched payment digitization for more than 850 herders, helping to improve their living and working conditions.
The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.
This report presents a powerful new demonstration of how digital payments can transform millions of lives for the better.
We invite you to use this compendium to make digital financial inclusion a priority.
Sudan Joins United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to Drive Financial Inclusion and Transparency
Public and Private Sector Collaboration is Critical for Success
Opening new payment gateways for merchants presents risks but much greater opportunities. Striking the right balance between fostering innovative services and managing risk is crucial.
“The study finds that the type of mobile coverage provided has a significant effect on the DFS UI and type of mobile phone that can be used for DFS access.Feature phones and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transactions continue to be the choice for the vast majority users.”
This paper investigates the impact of mobile financial services - MFS (mobile money, and mobile credit and savings) on the informal sector using data from 101 emerging and developing countries over the period 2000-15.
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.