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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Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
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Interview with Gustavo Vega, President of the clearing house ACH Colombia
This is the third in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members.
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
With 37 percent of the value of all payments now made digitally, Ghana is on course to be a leader in the region, with great potential to expand economic opportunities for businesses
Ingreso Solidario is a COVID-19 social protection programme in Colombia benefitting 3 million households. It shows digital payments can be rapidly dispersed across multiple channels.
Building an inclusive financial ecosystem is critical to accelerating the shift away from cash in Colombia and Latin America…
Transportation Series: Blog 1 (Introduction)
In looking at ways to bring financial services to the more than two billion people outside formal financial systems, often the focus has been on piecemeal efforts to improve specific element…
The Mexican government is saving an estimated US$ 1.27 billion per year, or 3.3 percent of its total expenditure, on wages, pensions and social transfers. How? By digitizing and centralizing…
Prioritizing women, deepening digital infrastructure, designing for users, and building trust drive usage of digital financial services
This report examines new business models and government initiatives for energy access that rely upon digital payments.
By BTCA Communications Team…
Insights from the 2023 HLPF expert roundtable
Transportation Series: Blog 3
Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth.
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, the Better Than Cash Alliance hosted a roundtable discussion with Juan Jiménez Mayor, Prime Minister, Republic…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…