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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Today, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, joined The Better Than Cash Alliance, committing to boost the use of digital payments to improve programme delivery, by generating cost savi…
The government joins the United Nations-based alliance of governments, companies and international organizations that works to accelerate the move toward digitization of payments…
The report provides evidence on how financial inclusion facilitates various Sustainable Development Goals and highlughts how governments have been able to significantly reduce cost and leakages.
The Better Than Cash Alliance recently held a live webinar with key players behind the launch of Peru’s new mobile wallet. “Bim” is the first product of Modelo Perú, which plans to bring dig…
This brief elucidates how digital finance is enabling pay-as you-go (PAYG) energy expansion, which delivers greater access to wide-ranging financial products to the unbanked. It discusses the evidence from Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana.
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This Guidebook provides an easy-to-use tool to understand how digital finance is helping addressing some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and includes some interesting use cases from Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
La organización se une a una alianza organizada por la Naciones Unidas para unir gobiernos, empresas y organizaciones internacionales en el esfuerzo para avanzar pagos digitales…
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,
The paper summarizes existing e-information services in India and discusses some of the main factors limiting access to information services such as irrelevant information, high level of illiteracy, unaffordable etc
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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.
Through an extensive literature review, the paper provides evidence about role of mobile banking as well as branchless banking is significant for women entrepreneur’s empowerment, especially for financially including them.
The aim of the paper is to bridge the theoretical and methodological gap to evaluate how the social construction of m-banking enables and constrains poor women to access G2P payments in Pakistan.
Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, the paper investigates how the adoption of mobile phones enabled and constrained poor women for receiving G2P payments and its impact on poor households.