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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Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
Taking stock of the digital payments ecosystem with a 7-point action plan to expand the merchant acceptance network
Guest post by Alicia Rendon Contro, Grupo Bimbo
How will digitization of merchant payments improve women’s financial inclusion and economic resilience?
An interview with the Ethical Tea Partnership: Jenny Costelloe, Executive Director & Liberal Seburikoko, Regional Director (Africa)
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.
The Government of Indonesia, with the Indonesian cocoa sector and the Better Than Cash Alliance has conducted a first-of-its-kind sizing exercise to assess opportunities for digital financial inclusion for smallholder cocoa farmers.
New Report “Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in India’s North East Region” by UN based Better Than Cash Alliance
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
The paper explains the changes in pricing policy for instant payments compared to traditional card schemes and assesses their impact on market development.
Alliance’s work in action
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Unilever partnered with Mastercard and Kenya Commercial Bank to develop a digital working capital platform helping small merchants grow sale in Kenya, called Jaza Duka.
This highlights report captures the progress of payments digitalization in the country in 2019 and the first half of 2020.
At ACDI/VOCA we see firsthand how technological innovations are revolutionizing approaches to global economic development. This is particularly true for electronic payments. Around 2.5 billi…
This report examines two of China’s most far-reaching applications – WeChat and Alipay – and explores their role in the development of one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated digital payments ecosystems.
This report is the first of its kind to document key data points on the costs and benefits of wage digitization from a factory perspective.
This case study is the first to examine a shift to electronic payments in a large-scale rural business-to- business context.
Finance Ministers of the economies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) endorsed the new Better Than Cash Alliance report on the role of digital payments in sustainable agriculture on 21st October, in Viet Nam.