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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This playbook discusses the various potential Value Added Services that could increase uptake of mobile retail payments in Tanzania and similar emerging markets.
The Global Payment Systems Survey (GPSS) covers cross-country comparisons and assess progress in national payments system development. The latest iteration (2018) shows the number of cashless transactions per capita per year (globally) increased by 25% as compared to 2015.
This Harvard Business School paper concludes that consumers who switch to digital payments maintain their purchase frequency but spend more and are less likely to return their purchases.
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.
A digital strategy for Ethiopia inclusive prosperity
Better placement of marketing materials can help boost usage of digital payments in small merchants. What are some other ways to drive usage? Read this IFC report that is based on feedback and learnings from early adopters of bKash in Bangladesh.
This study analyzes whether mobile payments are still relevant for the fintech industry by comparing three mobile payment projects – Oi Paggo in Brazil, TCASH in Indonesia, and M-PESA in Kenya.
The presentation provides ideas for digital payments to replace cash as the most used mode of retail merchants worldwide.
This report identifies critical barriers to the expansion of electronic payment acceptance and effective ways to address the challenges of building the ecosystem for payment acceptance among SMBs.
The paper covers in-depth analyses of how digitizing P2G payments help drive the financial inclusion of poor consumers and identifies some critical factors to develop an efficient and inclusive payment system.
The COVID-19 crisis is having a significant and widespread effect on global payments across sectors. The most striking and potentially lasting impact is an accelerating pace of change in the industry.
Although cashless payment instruments have been available in Mexico for some time, their rate of adoption was not remarkably fast, until the last 15 years. This chapter seeks to document this phenomenon and discuss some hypotheses on why the adoption rate is still low.
The report makes recommendations for government in india to shape policy that simplifies KYC requirements, making digital payment transactions more user friendly.
This paper analyzes how existing Digital Financial Services initiatives can better align to support humanitarian response, and uses a framework for comprehensively considering e-payment preparedness. Central African Republic, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, Somalia, and Yemen have been evaluated as per the framework.
The report attempts to understand the factors that drive awareness and interest among current non-users of digital payments in India and analyzes the experience of current users and dentify potential strategies to spur the adoption among these consumers and merchants.
This report from Centre for Strategic and International Studies makes a strong case for digital payments for equity, development and security.
The Ghana Digital Payments Roadmap is designed to chart the way to a vibrant and inclusive digital payments ecosystem.
The paper proposes a new communication network, Speed PAy, that jointly connects the banks together and allows the customers to process all kind of transactions with the use of their cell phones and without the need for a new SIM.
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Everything from the range of goods and services we buy to how we buy them has drastically shifted toward digital, bringing significant benefits to consumers, businesses and economies. As the…