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Investing In Girls: Opportunities for Innovation in Girl-Centered Cash Transfers

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.
News >> Media Release

Looking Ahead - Ethiopia launches new digital payments strategy to catalyze inclusive growth

To speed up Ethiopia’s journey towards digital transformation, the Government of Ethiopia is launching today the first-ever digital payments strategy.
© ©Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
News >> Ideas & Updates

Sierra Leone: Digitizing revenue collection is the next frontier

By Alfred Akibo-Betts and Tenzin Keyzom Massally

© © Tenzin Keyzom Massally
News >> Ideas & Updates

Interview with Maha Bahou, Central Bank of Jordan “Our strategy is national, not institutional”

Ms. Maha Bahou is the Executive Manager for Payment Systems & Domestic Banking Operations and Financial Inclusion Department at the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ)….
News >> Ideas & Updates

UN study: Digitization of Kenyan farmer payments helps tackle poverty

One Acre Fund cut payment losses and collection costs by over 80 percent, boosting farmers’ satisfaction and economic opportunity…
News >> Ideas & Updates

Driving to Scale: Bim’s Journey to Digital Financial Inclusion in Peru

Interview with Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, General Manager of Peruvian Digital Payments (PDP)
© © Pagos Digitales Peruanos (PDP)
News >> Ideas & Updates

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

Blockchain Series: Blog 6
© © Arne Hoel / World Bank
News >> Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls Ahead

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

New UN report reveals momentum for digital payments in Ghana could save over GHS 1 billion within next four years

With 37 percent of the value of all payments now made digitally, Ghana is on course to be a leader in the region, with great potential to expand economic opportunities for businesses
© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Emmanuel Doe
News >> Ideas & Updates

Senegal: tech helps boost access to health to leave poverty behind

This blog post was originally published in the Action 2030 Blog on unsdg.un.org.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Video Positive
News >> Ideas & Updates

Ethiopia: “Mobile money doubled my number of customers in just three years”

In Addis Ababa, the vibrant Ethiopian capital, lies a busy Somali community market where Bisharo runs a small shop.
© © Dayan Berhe / Better Than Cash Alliance
News >> Ideas & Updates

Senegal: Digitizing payments could add FCFA 104 billion to GDP every year

Media release by the Government of Senegal, the Better Than Cash Alliance and MM4P…
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
News >> Ideas & Updates

“Digital payments can be a game-changer for farmers”

Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs

© © World Cocoa Foundation
Alliance Reports >> Case Study

The Fight for Light: Improving Energy Access through Digital Payments

This report examines new business models and government initiatives for energy access that rely upon digital payments.
© © GettyImages
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Branchless Banking in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges

The paper examines strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of branchless banking and recommends some strategies around the identified challenges with a focus on Pakistan.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Ethiopia Digital Payments Strategy: Digital Ethiopia 2025

A digital strategy for Ethiopia inclusive prosperity
© ©Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Global Resources >> Toolkits

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The Impact of Mobile Money on Poverty Toolkit

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.
Alliance Reports >> Case Study

Employee Wellbeing, a Pillar of Stability for the Local Ecosystem

CSS is thus strongly committed to providing high-quality services to its workers and their families, both formal and informal financial services.
© © CSS
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Mobile payments: How digital finance is transforming agriculture

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.
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Bringing E-money to the Poor: Successes and Failures

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.