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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The paper outlines potential for growth for FinTech for financial inclusion while emphasising on the need for regulatory approaches , citing some successful cases from India , Kenya and China.
Lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal
New report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains.
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
Digital financial inclusion offers real hope to help us get back to achieving the SDGs by 2030
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Alliance’s work in action
PNG’s Ministries of Finance and Treasury endorse Better Than Cash Alliance membership
New World Bank Findex note discusses the many ways in which young people in Sub-Saharan Africa are using formal financial services for entrepreneurship.
Digital financial services (DFS) are held out as key financial solutions for improving financial inclusion. However, targeted end users often offer little in the way of obvious profitable op…
This report examines the successful lessons from Kenya, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Thailand case studies of “gazelles", that leapt from limitation to innovation by successfully enabling the deployment of e-money technology.
What being gender intentional has taught us about advancing digital financial equality for women.
Here are highlights on how our global partnership ignited progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through shifting to digital payments.
Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.
In this edition of the newsletter, we applaud the leadership of Alliance members in the Philippines, Ghana and India who are ensuring that women can gain economic independence through digitization.
There is growing consensus in the humanitarian community that cash (digital or physical) – as opposed to delivery of food and materials – is often the best way to help communities bounce back from crisis.