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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By joining our global partnership, Indonesia is committed to accelerating the transition from cash to digital payments and has encouraged fellow APEC countries to follow suit.
Focussing on women, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the paper highlights that digital financial solutions could play a significant part in closing gaps in financial inclusion and povides insights from Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
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This report identifies critical gaps and opportunities for the cashless economies to increase financial inclusion for MSMs aand provides some interseting insights from successful cases from sevral countries including Indonesia, Peru and Nigeria.
By BTCA Communications Team…
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Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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Guest post by Shireen Santosham, GSMA Connected Women
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.
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