Taxes

Digitizing payments in the Ghana cocoa sector: The path to financial equality

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements of our members one year on from Reaching Financial Equality for Women, to ensure stronger economies that build on the strengths of women and girls.

World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery

The World Bank analyzes how COVID-19 is affecting emerging economies and how to mitigate interconnected financial risks to achieve an equitable recovery.

ID4D and G2Px - 2021 Annual Report

COVID-19 highlighted the crucial role of ID and digital G2P payment ecosystems. This report shares progress of ID4D and G2Px initiatives in 2021 and 2022 plans.

CGAP - Trends in international funding for financial inclusion

CGAP’s Market Monitoring Toolkit aims to help financial and consumer protection supervisors spot and act on new and evolving consumer risks promptly.

LEARNING SERIES >> Collaborating to scale the responsible digitization of humanitarian payments

There is an urgent need and powerful opportunity to further boost the outreach, efficiency, and efficacy of digital humanitarian payments through enhanced coordination between UN agencies.

Lessons on accelerating responsible digital payments globally

A compilation of what we have learnt from supporting country diagnostic reports and national strategies, merchant payments (P2B) and Person to Government (P2G) payments.

Kenya's National Payments Strategy 2022-2025

The 2022-2025 strategy envisages a secure, fast, efficient and collaborative payments system that supports financial inclusion and innovations for all Kenyans.

Sierra Leone’s 2022-2026 National Financial Inclusion Strategy

The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL)‘s National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2026 prioritizes women, youth, rural populations and MSMEs.

Side session at the 2022 OECD Forum on due diligence in the Garment and Footwear sector: Responsible Digital Wage Payments

Join us on 22nd February for a discussion on digital wages in the garment and footwear supply chain.

UN-based Global Alliance Advances Digital Payments in Africa

LEARNING SERIES >> Improving efficiency in domestic resource mobilization through the digitization of revenue payments

The challenges, opportunities, and priorities in designing effective tax and non-tax revenue payment digitization solutions.

LEARNING SERIES >> Tax digitalization: building a trusted ecosystem through a common vision

Tax digitalization, when designed and implemented effectively, can deliver major benefits for society, reduce inequalities, and contribute to the financing of the SDGs.

LEARNING SERIES >> Our learnings from digitizing P2G payments in a customer-centric way

Successful digitization of P2G payments and its widespread adoption by users is achievable - but depends on the alignment of various important factors.

Beneficiary Experience of Digital G2P Payments in Bangladesh, Colombia, and the Philippines

This IPA study from the Philippines, Colombia & Bangladesh explores consumers’ experience with digital G2P cash transfers during COVID-19.

Digitizing Payments Responsibly in the Tea Sector – Ethical Tea Partnership joins Better Than Cash Alliance

Ethical Tea Partnership is a membership organization working with tea companies, development organizations and governments to improve the lives of tea workers, farmers and their environment.

Development Co-operation Report 2021

OECD draws on guidance and good practices from 40 experts & world leaders, including the Alliance, on how to achieve a just & equitable digital transformation.

2021 highlights: Launching and scaling responsible digital payments

Here, we share highlights of our collaboration with members despite the continuing serious challenges of COVID-19.

Private Philanthropy for Development: Data for Action

OECD offers detailed, comparable data on private philanthropy’s contribution to development, and its role in supporting a sustainable COVID-19 recovery.

The Great Unbundling

CGAP explore how financial services are changing through a business model lens, and what fintech’s ‘unbundling’ of banking means for financial inclusion.

World Bank - Central Bank Digital Currency : A Payments Perspective

This guidance note examines key aspects of central bank digital currency (CBDC) design and implementation, and implications for financial systems worldwide.