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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The World Bank analyzes how COVID-19 is affecting emerging economies and how to mitigate interconnected financial risks to achieve an equitable recovery.
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.
The Alliance Learning Series is developed to promote a culture of active sharing of learnings with members and other key stakeholders.
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
Building capacity within government agencies that champion digital payments
Lessons from our work with members in Ghana, India, Mexico, and the Philippines
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have been severely affected by COVID-19, with a regional GDP contraction of 6.7%** according to the World Bank.
The latest edition of the World Development Report from the World Bank provides a blueprint on how to harness the power of data for development, to ensure no one is left behind.
This study presents a unique perspective, comparing concrete experiences from large companies to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)
Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance is part of stimulating more innovation and financial inclusion for smallholders
Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach
The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the SDGs within reach.
Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.
COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.
The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.
New Alliance report “Success Factors in Tax Digitalization” is another powerful demonstration of how digital payments can positively impact millions of lives.
Mexico has been among the forerunners in tax digitalization, starting in the 1980s when it piloted digital Point of Sale (PoS) registration and invoicing.