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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This paper suggests policymakers and other stakeholders should leverage trends toward financially-inclusive e-payments as a means to achieve multiple potential objectives for bringing financial inlcusion to adolescent girls.
By Alfred Akibo-Betts and Tenzin Keyzom Massally
To speed up Ethiopia’s journey towards digital transformation, the Government of Ethiopia is launching today the first-ever digital payments strategy.
Interview with Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, General Manager of Peruvian Digital Payments (PDP)
One Acre Fund cut payment losses and collection costs by over 80 percent, boosting farmers’ satisfaction and economic opportunity…
Ms. Maha Bahou is the Executive Manager for Payment Systems & Domestic Banking Operations and Financial Inclusion Department at the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ)….
Blockchain Series: Blog 6
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This blog post was originally published in the Action 2030 Blog on unsdg.un.org.
Media release by the Government of Senegal, the Better Than Cash Alliance and MM4P…
Communiqué de presse du Gouvernement du Sénégal, l’Alliance Better Than Cash et MM4P…
In Addis Ababa, the vibrant Ethiopian capital, lies a busy Somali community market where Bisharo runs a small shop.
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
This report examines new business models and government initiatives for energy access that rely upon digital payments.
Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.
One of the most important tools on Everline Wakhungu’s farm is her mobile phone….
This report is based on primary research on agriculture mobile payments initiatives in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia with the aim of understanding the potential of mobile finance for the agricultural sector and how these barriers might be overcome.
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.
The paper presents detailed insights from 15 years of financial inclusion research to highlight the importance of fintech, including proposing product development ideas for Fintech players, to better serve developing world market.
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.