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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Ethiopia has a sole mobile network provider and a banking sector that is closed to foreign ownership. Does that make it easy for the government to take a rural-first approach to digitization? Learn about it more in this USAIDFeed The Future brief that also mentions the Alliance.
A new payment platform launched by Mastercard, UNICEF and the Ministry of Education in Uganda is gaining traction, reaching over 130,000 registered students in just one year….
This CG Dev paper, by Professor Njuguna Ndung’u, shows how M-Pesa’s success has led to a series of endogenous innovations that have shaped Kenya’s digital space. It outlines several important challenges that Kenya will need to address in order to further consolidate its success, including connectivity issues, digital ID, interoperability and consumer protection.
The use of digital cards for government safety net transfers enhanced women’s decision-making power in the household and led to a 92% increase in women’s likelihood of participating in the l…
When a family member first told Mary that she could use her mobile phone to store her money, she felt that she had finally found a safe place to keep the earnings from her vegetable sales….
A third of adults struggle to get by without basic financial services to protect against hardship and save for the future. Ruth Goodwin-Groen, of the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance, expl…
Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.
In Addis Ababa, the vibrant Ethiopian capital, lies a busy Somali community market where Bisharo runs a small shop.
As Nigeria rolls out one of the developing world’s most ambitious policy platforms to boost digital payments and drive greater financial inclusion, it’s important to take stock of the country’s progress to date, so that policy-makers around the world can learn from Nigeria’s experiences.
Learn more in our new report launched with ILO, Better Work and GIZ on supporting the responsible scaling of digital wages to advance decent work in Jordan.
Learn about emerging trends in development partner payments and how to make the case for digitizing payments by your organization.