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 Handbook advices and informs on current dynamics, opportunities, challenges and policy options for Africa’s regional integration agenda.
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.
This chapter discusses the ecological contexts, processes, and trajectory of New Public Management (NPM) in Zimbabwe.
We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that default enro…
بیٹر دان کیش الائنس اپنی تازہ ترین رپورٹ پیش کرتا ہے، جس میں MSMEs کو سپورٹ کرنے اور پاکستان میں ڈیجیٹل ادائیگیوں کے ماحولیاتی نظام میں ان کی منتقلی کو فعال کرنے کے لیے سفارشات فراہم کی گئی ہیں۔
Digital financial inclusion offers real hope to help us get back to achieving the SDGs by 2030
Merci d'avoir participé à la 2è table ronde de la Pan-African Peer Exchange Series, consacrée à la numérisation responsable des paiements d'impôts.
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.
A round-up of some of our biggest successes in 2016
This paper provides examples of how digitization in Kenya has supported the economy via a retail electronic payments system, financial inclusion, increased financial sector vibrancy, and pushed GDP growth with it.
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.
New World Bank Findex note discusses the many ways in which young people in Sub-Saharan Africa are using formal financial services for entrepreneurship.
This report lays out the principles for a new digital economy for MENA that embraces innovation and entrepreneurship, youth and women economic empowerment, rekindling the role of State, etc.
Kenya has been hailed as one of the developing world’s leaders in electronic payments. So it should come as no surprise that a sparsely populated, dusty village 500 kilometres from Nairobi i…
Government, private sector, mobile operators and development organizations convene to establish a plan for the future…
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.
The Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) is supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) work with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams.
This is the third in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members.
The study looks at how development organizations or government programs can increase the efficiency and scale of transfers, while also forming the building blocks for financial inclusion.