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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By Alfred Akibo-Betts and Tenzin Keyzom Massally
By Oswell Kahonde and Juan Blanco
One Acre Fund cut payment losses and collection costs by over 80 percent, boosting farmers’ satisfaction and economic opportunity…
Our Peer-Exchange to Brazil was part of the Alliance’s response to the knowledge needs of member countries…
Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth.
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
By BTCA Communications Team…
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…
This is the third in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members.
Rwanda to accelerate digital payments by joining the Better Than Cash Alliance
Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda. …
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
As part of its commitments to enhance food security, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has introduced mobile phone facilitated cash transfers to feed the 14,500 refugees in Gihem…
It’s hard to imagine a more explosive, transformative, and empowering trend than the growth of the mobile phone sector in Africa.