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The Digital Lives of Refugees

This report by GSMA and UNHCR looks at the ways in which refugees are using mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators.
© © GSMA
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How do refugees use their mobile phones? 

New GSMA and UNHCR report looks at the ways in which refugees are using their mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators. It identifies affordability, literacy, digital skills, and charging as the main barriers to mobile phone ownership and mobile internet usage.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Fintech notes: Rise of digital money

This IMF brief takes a first stab at tackling the questions surrounding the rise of new forms of digital money.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Mobile-delivered economic ID for inclusion of SMEs

Unregistered SMEs account for 65% of Nigeria’s GDP. Most of them often struggle to demonstrate their personal and business credentials to service providers and customers. This GSMA research finds that there is a need for new approaches to identity and mobile-delivered ‘economic ID’ solution holds promise.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Allan Gichigi
Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

The Role of Digital Financial Inclusion in Preparing for Older Age and Retirements

This paper, jointly released by the Better Than Cash Alliance and the World Bank, summarizes and analyzes the financial challenges faced by older adults.
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Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Using technology to improve agent models

This CGDev study sets out to understand the effectiveness of reforms taken by Andhra Pradesh to digitalize service delivery. It identifies access, accountability, choice, and voice as the four principles underlying the digital reforms there.

© © OMIDYAR NETWORK
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The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Does access to mobile money help improve livelihood in remote settings? This paper shows that rolling out mobile money agents in Northern Uganda led to cost-savings for remittance transactions. It also shows that access to digital payments doubled the nonfarm self-employment rate and reduced the fraction of households with very low food security. 
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Understanding Blockchain

Read the six-blog series that aims to foster a better understanding of the technology.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
News >> Ideas & Updates

Blockchain: Cutting through the noise

Introduction: Framing of our blog series on distributed ledger technology…
News >> Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledger Technology: What Is It and Why Do We Care?

Blockchain Series: Blog 1…
© © WFP
News >> Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledgers: Looking Past the Hype

Blockchain Series: Blog 2…
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
News >> Ideas & Updates

DLT: Keep Calm and Let the Evidence Speak

Blockchain Series: Blog 3…
© © Fairfood Coconut Project
News >> Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls Ahead

Blockchain Series: Blog 4
© © WFP
News >> Ideas & Updates

Distributing Production: Can Distributed Ledgers Fuel a New Wave of Supply-Chain Innovation?

Blockchain Series: Blog 5
© © MM4P
News >> Ideas & Updates

Paying Across Borders: Can Distributed Ledgers Bring Us Closer Together?

Blockchain Series: Blog 6
© © Arne Hoel / World Bank
Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

Public Financial Management and the Digitalization of Payments

Joint report by the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Center for Global Development, and the Overseas Development Institute, building on work with the International Monetary Fund in 2017.
© © Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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The state of ICT in Uganda 

This IDRC and SIDA-funded policy paper looks at the state of Information and Communications Technologies in Uganda. Apart from other policy recommendations, it calls for addressing the issue of affordability of devices and data and revisiting the issue of social media and mobile money taxes.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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The promise of digital payments for women poultry farmers

In a six-month pilot, mStar Project used awareness tools, local youth, and behavior change agents to teach women farmers how to use and gain trustin digital payments. 500 women were trained and 353 opened digital accounts.

© © mStar-USAID
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Do Mothers Prefer Digital Payments over Cash?

Government of Bangladesh shifted to digital payments to transfer education stipends directly to mobile phone accounts of nearly 13 million mothers. In this report, CGDev takes stock of how t…
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Fintech and Financial Inclusion: Lessons Learned

CGAP worked with 18 fintech pilots across Africa and Asia. This set of case studies describes for each pilot the service that was piloted, the nature of its testing, and emerging lessons. Th…