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 report attempts to understand, for India, the factors that drive awareness and interest among current non-users of digital payments, analyze the experience of existing users and identify potential strategies to spur the adoption of digital payments among these consumers and merchants
The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments
USAID has commissioned this study to understand the perceptions towards digital payments among consumers and merchants in low-income communities. The research provides key findings from quantitative surveys carried out in Indian cities- Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kota, Vishakhapatnam, Guntur and Jaunpur,
A new report by the World Bank, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking provides insights on how digital financial services can help close the gender gap.
By BTCA Communications Team…
The paper explores the opportunities to overcome barriers to financial access in Bangladesh through branchless banking and emphasis that financial inclusion and inclusive growth could be advanced through existing work by Bangladesh bank on favorable agent banking policies
A report by the World Bank Development Research Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
The emergence of Nigeria as a regional economic powerhouse has presented a challenge for Nigerian policymakers: how to convert Nigeria’s growth at the macro level into greater financial inclusion, so that the rising economic tide can benefit more people.
The purpose of this working paper is to set out the key components and stakeholders in a digital payments ecosystem (DPE).
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.
The Tanzanian President, Finance Ministers and high level delegates are leading SDG progress by digitizing payments and accelerating financial inclusion.
Buckinghamshire County Council discusses the case how they provided access to leisure and positive activities for children and young people through prepaid cards, reacheing over 80 percent within 15 months into the program.
By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …
The Republic of Moldova has joined the UN-housed Better Than Cash Alliance to make digital payments for all public services a reality by 2020. …
The McKinsey Global Institute has mapped 15 gender-equality indicators for 95 countries and finds that 40 of them have high or extremely high levels of gender inequality on at least half of the indicators.
The President of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, as well as Ministers and other high level figures from Peru, Belgium, Bangladesh, Colombia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and S…